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RIMs Latest Apple Apps Won't Catch on Well: Here's Why

"Unless Apple is also a bank, they have to pay somebody a fee to process the credit/debit card purchases from their site. An equally feasible theory is that Blackberry negotiated a lower fee relationship with PayPal than Apple has with its processor."

Apple has an efficient and low cost method for collecting small payments. Part of this stems from its licensing use of patents from Amazon.com Furthermore, the method has been tested more than a few times.

I agree that Paypal will present RIMM with a lower cost than available from "standard" card processors. Most of the sites that I use and offer Paypal services appear to offer alternative means of payment. I seems that many folks, I for one, just do not wish to register their details with Paypal or alternative payment aggregators.

Thank goodness that RIMM choose not to emulate Microsoft with its "Points"

RIMs Latest Apple Apps Won't Catch on Well: Here's Why

In reply to Wil.

Indeed iTunes is there when you plug in.

In my case, I tend to use iTunes to manage existing Apps - do all the updates in a single process and to select which programs I wish to see as available on my iPhone screen. However, I tend to find, select, purchase, download and install new programs from the iPhone device App Store.

I doubt that all of these comparisons will influence the market at least until the results play out. After all, App World is the same as App Store - isn't it?

RIMs Latest Apple Apps Won't Catch on Well: Here's Why

My Mum always told me not to copy others but to do what was right for me.

All of the iPhone imitators are falling into the Apple trap by increasingly emulating and adding features that are barely "good enough" The end result of this is a platform that becomes increasingly not good enough.

I like your comment "with so many mouths to feed" It appears to me that RIM is also using a third party for hosting and secure delivery/re-delivery of the programs and updates. The economics seem to be leading towards App World becoming a promotional expense.

What Will It Take for Microsoft and Adobe to Agree on an HD Web Video Standard?

H.264 720p 1080p

That's what is predominantly in use today.

What's the issue?

Flash Player: Apple's Blind Spot?

In the early days of iPhone/iPod Touch I would have agreed with you.

Since then, I do not have Flash issues for what I have learned to use the devices for at all and web pages are rarely left with vacant Flash place holders.

The early issue on incorporation of Flash in addition to security is that it is a resource hog in terms of processing cycles, memory and bandwidth. The current solution for mobile, Flash Lite, is a very poor experience on any high resolution mobile device screen. If you can look at resource use on your Desktop or Laptop, try running Flash web pages and you will see the issue.

Flash as we know it is not suitable for these devices. Devices will stall, batteries will expire and the ubiquitous use will saturate carriers networks.

You Tube works perfectly well on the iPhone. Browser based BBC iPlayer in the UK works perfectly well over Wi-Fi and iPod Movies are superb.

Adoption of in progress web standards will allow for the incorporation and playing of video of various formats within a web page more easily. The SDK provided by Apple is also much more suitable for resident multi media applications.

I suggest to you that the non Flash use gripes about the iPhone are, well, just gripes. Apple is absolutely right to hold out on this unless a workable, in all respects, solution can be hammered out. Already, through the extent of mobile web use, Apple is the standard if any and it is doing this largely through using web standards. Flash is not a standard even if its use is ubiquitous on PC platforms.

Windows Mobile: Like Using Fred Flintstone's iStone

Timely, appropriate and amusing.

The Benefits of a Standardized MicroUSB

Thanks - nice to know all of this.

My guess is that few do which makes your bottom line a rather flaky conclusion

MacWorld Step Is Yet Another Positive for Apple

Sir

You are in a minority of commentators

Hopefully though, you are consistent with a majority of investors.

Thank you for an objective and sensible viewpoint.

It's No Big Deal That Apple Is Pulling Out of Macworld

I consider that the Press Release Team and Steve Dowling in particular do an excellent job in sticking to the CEO's mandate.

The CEO does a pretty good job as well by many accounts.

It's No Big Deal That Apple Is Pulling Out of Macworld

Nah ---- something big at work here - out of MacWorld with a bang?

1. The funds believe they are having a hay day.

2. Jobs appears looking fatter than Schiller who has lost just a little weight to make himself presentable.

3. Introduces Schiller and runs.

4. Schiller talks at length about Snow Leopard.

5. Introduces a new Mac Mini that will work with the new LED Cinema Display.

6. Forgets something

7. Remembers something

8. Introduces an entirely new compact Snow Leopard platform that automatically senses and saves a profile of available services (phone, wi-fi, printing, DVD/CD re-writer, discs and whatever else) in each destination location (e.g. Home, Office 1, Office 2, Hotel 1 etc)

9. Price - two bags of shrimp.

10. Available April Fools Day

One week later.

1. Announce Incredible results.

2. Credible forecast

3. Funds are screwed.

A wild, wild dream? Well no more so than any of the speculation surrounding a simple situation of Apple exiting its last major Trade Show participation just as it chose to end Apple Expo Paris before the last event (2008) which has been followed up with Reed International's announcement today about the cancelation of the 2009 Paris Event.

Guess who presented the Keynote at the last Paris event?

MacWorld to Follow Floppy Disk Into Extinction

At last some sense - thank you.

iPhone at Wal-Mart? Steve, Say it Aint So!

rd4

I do believe that you are spot on!

The associated monthly fees need addressing also for this market segment. Presumably the Apple price of the device will allow this.

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.

Is iPhone Leading the Way in Smartphone Evolution?

Your title is beyond doubt!

The Blackberry Storm has been available in the UK a little earlier than in the US.

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Dead in the water. Suggest..you know what!

Microsoft & Akamai's 'Smooth Streaming': How Will It Impact the Market?

For Tom B

I like to believe is your assertion.

On the sideline?

Netflix is using the MS platform and Silverlight for its streaming service