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Is iPhone Leading the Way in Smartphone Evolution?

Good question - great post. My answer - Yes!

Apple has lured the would be competition into, well, competing. The iPod analogy is spot on.


On Nov 20 11:51 AM buffeted wrote:

> A better question is can the unity of iphone and app store platform
> design i.e. contextual experience of the iphone/app store be effectiveley
> copied by the competion, since this is clearly the path other smart
> phone makers have decided embark upon? Here's perhaps an even more
> interesting question: Are we mistakingly comparing a hand held computer
> (iphone has an osx computer operating system) with smart phones?
> How is the consumer interpreting the device? Is the Apple iphone+app
> store headed the same direction as the ipod itunes "story" in the
> sense of reaching some deeper, emotional attachment or "experience"
> in the consumer that others devices dont? If the answer to the last
> question is a yes, the competition is appears simply outmatched,
> for the time being.