Thursday, April 23, 2009

The State of the iPhone is Strong - Very Strong

TechCrunch published an excellent editorial about why the iPhone will continue to dominate the smartphone market as THE mobile device to have.

As I mentioned in a previous post, its the iPhone ecosystem that makes the difference not just good design. I think the TechCrunch author believes as I do that the ecosystem established around the iPhone is nearly insurmountable obstycle to real competition against the iPhone. As the article puts it: 21 million phone sold, 35 thousand applicaitons and, very soon, 1 billion downloads.

Now to be honest my iPhone, which is the first generation, is falling a part. I can't use it without speaker phone, ear bugs, or my Jawbone bluetooth headset because ear-speaker is broken. My iPhone has frozen-up on me a dozen times, I've lost data, and the reception is horrible. That said, I wouldn't want any other phone (except maybe the iPhone 3 coming this June). I'm not loyal to Apple I just can't live without my iPhone.

1 comments:

Cell Phones said...

It is wonderful to know that the iPhone will continue to dominate the smartphone market. Indeed who would not love such advanced feature which is so user friendly as well? :-)