ColinToal

Smartphones: The Mobile Industry Is About to Get 'Blown Apart'

I'm with you - but I think RIMM goes to Android or goes away- and this pains me greatly as I think they are great company, I just think the android software is that good.


On May 20 01:42 PM froogloid wrote:

> Wow, what a lot of comments and opinions :) Here's my 2 cents ~ apple
> and android will prevail. OEM's, with the exception of BB, Nokia
> and Palm will of course adopt android. Apple will continue to build
> sexy phones. Microsoft, simply put, has a lot of catching up to do.
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> Of course, I'm biased for android :) froogloid.com/

Smartphones: The Mobile Industry Is About to Get 'Blown Apart'

Get caught in the rain once with your iPhone.

Just once.


On May 20 01:37 PM tilion wrote:

> On May 20 10:50 AM speeddaimon wrote:

Apple Warns iPhone Competitors: Don't Rip Us Off

Is it 1985 again ?

Is AAPL actually threatening to sue the competition over gimmicks that they claim they 'invented' when there is years and years of prior art saying they didn't ? I mean multi-touch for scaling photos is not so far from the Trash Can/Recycle bin is it ? Am I missing something ? Did they learn nothing in the last 20 years ?

I'm looking forward to the iPhone being an also ran to the OHSA, the same way the mac was an also ran to the PC.

Closed architectures are a compromise that customers are forced to make until a competing open alternative displaces it and litigation is always a poor substitute for innovation.

This is why Apple is cyclical. They do something bold and innovative, then they get greedy and lazy and close it off, and then they get beaten by open competitors and they cry to the courts until the crisis forces them to start again.

Good innovator - lousy competitor.

Deja vu all over again.