View Single Post
Old 01-20-2010, 05:59 PM   #118
DrFyzziks
Member
DrFyzziks can extract oil from cheeseDrFyzziks can extract oil from cheeseDrFyzziks can extract oil from cheeseDrFyzziks can extract oil from cheeseDrFyzziks can extract oil from cheeseDrFyzziks can extract oil from cheeseDrFyzziks can extract oil from cheeseDrFyzziks can extract oil from cheeseDrFyzziks can extract oil from cheese
 
Posts: 12
Karma: 1128
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Vancouver, BC Canada
Device: Sony PRS-505, iPad (soon)
Quote:
Originally Posted by 4-eyes View Post
Neither the iPod nor the iPhone revolutionised their fields. What Apple did do was make very good devices for existing markets and gained large market share.
I don't know about that. The iPhone revolutionised the mobile phone market in two ways:

1. It 'woke up' existing mobile phone makers and inspired them to think differently about phone user interfaces.

2. The app store concept changed the way mobile phone applications are sold. How many new 'app stores' have been announced by other mobile phone manufacturers since Apple came out with theirs?

If nothing else, Apple is good at coming into an existing market and shaking up the status quo.

---
Dr. Tablet - Tablet computing news, information, opinions and reviews
DrFyzziks is offline   Reply With Quote