Hayweed

The Ongoing Smartphone Revolution

Crazylegs - I saw my first zune yesterday being used by a person. No social there. You can say what you want but Apple is crushing the competition. If they weren't would Verizon really need to give you a free blackberry when you buy one. Talk about Margin Compression for Rimm. Dell needs a phone yet the carriers reject their proposed phone (LOL), MSFT is all about vaporware. Please stick with us we promise to come out with something cool some day - really. Sony may be reduced to a niche player in consumer electronics since we only have BBY and WMT left. At least Apple has their own stores.

The Ongoing Smartphone Revolution

His basis is that the "The Zune is a great bit of kit" which we all know is rubbish. Thus from the author's dim view, MSFT should be the best since they are the biggest. In autos, GM was the biggest yet they never made great cars. Android will be hampered by too many different handsets and a fight over the app marketplace - carrier, google or handset maker or all 3. Nintendo and Rimm is a laugher. That would destroy Rimm which is doing a good job of that to itself. Dell might buy Rimm which I hope happens since I am short Rimm and Dell, that marriage would definitely fail miserably.

Face it - the cell phone business was a dud. Rimm had an email machine that played brickbreaker (wow). Then Apple enters the market, everyone laughs, the phone begins to sell and then everyone says crap we need to do something. If the MSFT RIMM and others could not innovate before Apple how are they going to do it now.

Lastly, Apple should buy Sony and "become a world class consumer electronics company overnight." Where is the author hiding - under a rock. Apple is the premier consumer electronics company. I have Sony TVs but that is the only thing I would buy from Sony. Apple could easily make TVs. I did buy a Sony touchscreen camera which got the screen scratched first time in the pocket with keys. You can put your iphone in your pocket with keys and nothing happens.

Thus Apple should continue being Apple while the others pray that Apple runs out of ideas.