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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.

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

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!

Appetite for Risk? Buy Some RIMM

I agree with you 100% Mr Poo.

I would add that the mobile e-mail and browser and "cloud" market is about to see significant development as the emerging "Network Computers" begin to penetrate business. For some users this way of working will replace the RIMM approach.

We have yet to see what Apple will deliver to this new market segment and at what price point. It will be a huge blockbuster no doubt!