"This is like deja vu all over again": How the iPod is going to fail.
I think the only thing left out of your little blog-bite was a quote from Rob Enderle, of Enderle Group ('The Man and his Dog")…
Anyhoo.
The very near future is no longer about smartphones (or handset "makers") but about software-hardware integration. RIM does not have the same depth of knowledge of software engineering as Apple, and has much less experience/savvy with user interface development. Apple will likely deploy specifically developed chips to add to the graphics chips/radio-stacks (e.g. video encoding-decoding) and couple it with its optimized micro OS. RIM is the future has-been…
cheers!
Interesting comments. I think the first truly consumer facing Blackberries are the Pearl, and to a lesser extent, the Curve. Both are good-looking and small, and offer the same functionality you expect from all other Blackberries, but with the addition of music players and 2 megapixel cameras. The Bold will definitely step it up!
Will also be interesting to see the role that mobile applications play. The FT article talks about the app store, and while that might not bring the corporate user over to the iPhone yet (security, email, and Office interoperability might), an app store, or something like that will bring more consumers over to the Bold or Thunder. You don't see much discussion about call quality these days, and soon enough it won't be so much about email and security.
"RIM hasn’t done such a great job with more consumer friendly functions such as music playing."
What's wrong with the music player on blackberry? I already had all my songs on a microSD card. I popped it into my Blackberry 8830, and was easily able to play my library on my phone, and listen to the songs on my stereo bluetooth headphones. Apple isn't so good at supporting stereo bluetooth or external media.
"This is like deja vu all over again": How the iPod is going to fail.
I think the only thing left out of your little blog-bite was a quote from Rob Enderle, of Enderle Group ('The Man and his Dog")…
Anyhoo.
The very near future is no longer about smartphones (or handset "makers") but about software-hardware integration. RIM does not have the same depth of knowledge of software engineering as Apple, and has much less experience/savvy with user interface development. Apple will likely deploy specifically developed chips to add to the graphics chips/radio-stacks (e.g. video encoding-decoding) and couple it with its optimized micro OS. RIM is the future has-been…
cheers!
Interesting comments. I think the first truly consumer facing Blackberries are the Pearl, and to a lesser extent, the Curve. Both are good-looking and small, and offer the same functionality you expect from all other Blackberries, but with the addition of music players and 2 megapixel cameras. The Bold will definitely step it up!
Will also be interesting to see the role that mobile applications play. The FT article talks about the app store, and while that might not bring the corporate user over to the iPhone yet (security, email, and Office interoperability might), an app store, or something like that will bring more consumers over to the Bold or Thunder. You don't see much discussion about call quality these days, and soon enough it won't be so much about email and security.
"RIM hasn’t done such a great job with more consumer friendly functions such as music playing."
What's wrong with the music player on blackberry? I already had all my songs on a microSD card. I popped it into my Blackberry 8830, and was easily able to play my library on my phone, and listen to the songs on my stereo bluetooth headphones. Apple isn't so good at supporting stereo bluetooth or external media.