Uncle Miltie

Motorola Droid: A Promising iPhone Challenger

Here is the quandry - will Verizon cripple the Droid with all the Verizon "our way or the highway" demands, or will the open Android "anything goes" model be running on the droid?

If the device is crippled, it becomes another blah iPhone wannabe.

If the device is not crippled, Verizon loses several potential revenue streams (tv, gps, ringtones, etc.).

Until I see proof otherwise, I'm betting that Verizon will not give up those secondary revenue streams, relegating Droid to also-ran status.

Is There Room for All Smartphone Makers?

As bullish as I am on Apple, I don't see RIM going bankrupt any time soon. They have a sizable moat in the IT departments of most major corporations. Due to the ability of RIM devices to be securely administered remotely, and all the existing infrastructure dedicated to RIM devices in the enterprise, they have the necessary moat that Apple is still trying to overcome. My iPhone is much improved over the last 2+ years, but it's still not as easy for an IT department to administer as my wife's blackberry.

Also, don't count out RIM for people who primarily use their device for e-mail and text messaging. For those people - and there are a lot of them - the BB is still much easier to type on than an iPhone.

There is in my opinion room for both companies products, and both products have significant owner loyalty and satisfaction. They don't call them Crackberries for nothing. As much as you'd have to pry my iPhone out of my cold, dead fingers, you would have to do the same to my wife's blackberry.


On Sep 28 07:14 PM JamesApple wrote:


> Rim has its root as a pager maker. The blackberrys and BES are just
> pagers and paging devices and services with eMail attached. blackberrys,
> blackberry OS and BES are dumb products with severe limitations and
> restrictions which are extremely hardwired and mechanical. It is
> impossible for anything Rim to become smart.
>
> Rim is going to go bankrupt no later than year 2012.

Motorola Looks Far Better than Other Mobile Internet Players

Also there is this...

> "It is completely and utterly foolish to whine about Nokia being clueless and then say that Motorola at least knows what they're doing when Motorola is trying to do EXACTLY the same that Nokia has been doing for years"

Try changing the name from Motorola to Palm and going back to January and stating the same thing. Motorola unveiled their new Android platform, and basically everyone who saw it agreed that Moto might have finally "gotten it", similar to the same kind of sentiment with Palm when they unveiled WebOS. That was the driving element of the article and analysis.

Motorola Looks Far Better than Other Mobile Internet Players

Kevin - the phone game is no longer just features, it's usability. Nokia still excels at making great hardware with lots of features, but their user interface is horrible, making it nearly impossible for normal people to use those great hardware features. THAT is what iPhone, WebOS, and Android have been focused on, and that has allowed those handsets to gain significant market share in the smartphone segment. Until Nokia understands and corrects their problems with their UI, they will continue to lose market share. It's that simple...

Consumers Will Benefit From Smartphone Battle

The problem is that out of your 200 million Symbian phones, only a small portion can actually run applications due to a lack of memory and processing power. Add in the multiple different controller interfaces (keypad and buttons), different screen resolutions and different versions of Symbian, and it's a fragmented market at best. Newer devices will surely benefit from the newfound freedom, but unless they have a more common configuration, it's still a crapshoot.