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2009 Will Be a Painful Year for Mobile Device Vendors

It may get really bad for the mobile phone vendors if Apple comes out with a 4gb iphone for $99. That would make most of the motorola, nokia, lg phones worth $0 to the consumer while allowing apple to keep production ramped for economies of scale. The old phone vendors including Rimm are getting taken to the woodshed by a computer company with more cash than all the competitors combined.

The fact that in a little over a year Apple has made such an impact in phones is due to the fact that making a product is not the issue it is giving it software that makes it easy to use that is the new wave. Apple has an operating system and thus puts it in the iphone, the touch, all the ipods, laptops, desktops, wireless routers, and the apple tv. What product category do you think they topple next. I wouldn't want to be tivo with apple looking for new product catergories.