PK de C'ville

Revisiting the iPhone’s Browsing Market Share (Part II)

"I also received hate-mail from iPhone-junkies."

Easy to say. It's a meme. On your 1 you did receive 3 aggressively expressed comments from Apple fans, 1 from a Windoze guy, and 7 well behaved folks expressing skepticism with your mistaken conclusion.

I commend you for correcting yourself on the significance of AdMob, but I really didn't see much 'hate mail'.

Does a Mobile Internet Devices Market Exist?

Seems to me the iPod touch w/ its 3.5" screen expanded to 5" would be perfect and dominant in the MID space:

- added 3G connectivity to ATT and tMobile
- Expanded graphic keyboard
- More Multitouch gestures
- Wifi (Skype) phone/video capability
- All the iPod touch functionality, reliability, security, usability, coolness, and 100s of Apps

No one else can go there. Instant executive, mobile, college, teen (and military patrol!) must have device priced at $150 above current touch pricing.


Got iTablet killers? Not for a couple years, my friends.

Disclosure: OCILAP (Of course I'm Long Aapl!)

Revisiting the iPhone's Browsing Market Share

"US/WW Share of smartphone traffic" - NOT.

Seems like the other mobiles are going to special mobile websites audited by AdMob.

"Oh. Isn't that cute? They can access the internets!"

Well, it's true in the sense that the other mobiles are true 'smartphones' while the iPhone is really in a class by itself - the only pocket <standard> web browser.

Are Global Smartphone Sales Poised For Takeoff?

I agree w/ much in the article, but really, what would you say if you analyzed the prospects of the iPhone?

My view is the iPhone is in a category of 1 today. If the other high end mobiles are 'smartphones' then I'd call the iPhone a mobile phone platform with the potential to dominate as Windows 95 did in its heyday. We'd have to call it a 'Worldphone' or some other moniker.

Seriously, with 95% of all mobile internet traffic originating from the newly introduced iPhone, what might explain that? And what explains 3500 apps in 45 days? 100,000,000 downloaded apps?

Dean, Please do an article on the differences you note between an iPhone and a smartphone. I think it would be very informative.

Here's What Will Happen To Apple's Rivals

SmartPhone market? I guess the people whistling past the grave yard think the iPhone is a SmartPhone.

Can you spell p o c k e t c o m p u t e r?

How about T o a s t?

Sorry. Like Mike says, the game's over.

Is User Apathy About Smartphones Becoming Apparent?

Dean,

"...who buy Apple (AAPL) iPhones because, well, they're iPhones..."

If you're suggesting that they buy the fad or the glitz, think harder, my friend. The iPhone actually is the world's 1st and only enjoyable, powerful, reliable, mobile/pocket computer. It will be the platform of choice for mobile apps, soon to number in the thousands.

The iPhone is not a fad, it's an unassailable engineering and marketing marvel.

You're pretty close about the 'smartphone apathy' ; how about 'smartphone disgust'? Of course, the iPhone is often described with words like 'lovely', 'great', 'I want one.', 'can't wait'...

Your assignment: compare and contrast!

That would hit the nail on the head.

Wanted, Dead or Alive: The iPhone Killer

Apple calls it the iPhone, but it could more accurately be called the iPC (i Pocket Computer). It's the world's one and only iPC.

How long do you think it'll take for someone else's iPC to make it into your pocket? My guess: msft will screw up their 1st release in 2010, followed by something that works a year later. By then, it'll be too late and the iPhone will dominate its mkt, just like the iPod does today.

Oh, and as an added benefit, msft transitions into a Mac OS X application services company benefiting humanity by removing all of it's crap OSes from the mkt!