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

On May 20 10:50 AM speeddaimon wrote:

> For all of the apple "fanboys" who boast about openness and why the
> iPhone is the best I just want to ask one question.
>
> Can you replace the battery?
Number of years I've had a mobile phone: 13
Number of phones I've had: 6
Number of times I've replaced the battery: 0

So who cares? I expect to move to the next phone in a year or so and I really, really doubt I will have to replace the battery before then.

Nintendo Dominates April Game Console Market

"...but it is obvious now that they understand the market far better than their competition..."

I think it's important that Nintendo did not see "the market" that Sony and MSFT saw: they saw a bigger market. S & M focused their efforts on hard-core gamers who are willing to buy the latest, fastest, bestest. Nintendo learned with DS that there are literally hundreds of millions of people out there beyond that narrow market. They produced a console to appeal to those people and created their own market.