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Smartphones vs. PCs: Two Different Animals

"There are many innovative people out there and not all of them work for only one company."

But the problem is this: Those other people work for companies that don't have these advantages:

- a 3rd generation PC in your pocket
- 30 years of Unix OS development
- an incredibly powerful, managed, secure, and reliable developers' kit and app platform.
- a device ecosystem including: powerful integration with all Apple products (the 'halo'), micropayments (120mm credit cards), $38B in the bank, dominance in music, growing dominance in pocket PCs...

Do we get the picture here?

Research In Motion: Still the Best Positioned Smartphones Play

Here's the business argument for iPhone.

Highly competitive creative businesses are using it in very innovative ways. How long will it take for testimonials like these to open the doors to large enterprise environments?

www.apple.com/iphone/b...

And also, "iPhone has raised expectation levels for all smartphones..."

One thing I've noticed about friends who are skeptical about the iPhone's reputation: They assume that new competing smartphones are better than the REAL thing and buy something else because it's not an iPhone!

Some of these friends are now regretfully waiting their contracts out to get an iPhone.

Sorry, seems to me the iPhone and Android will be competing with each other while taking major market share from Windows Mobile and Symbian, and, to a lesser extent, from RIMM.

Apple vs. Microsoft: Who Will Bring the Ideal Mobile Productivity Device?

"Granted, there’s no news on an input system, and if it is through a on-screen keyboard, this device will be severely handicapped from a productivity standpoint."

Aw, come on.

It will have an optional Blue Tooth keyboard, the only question being, "Will it be from Apple or 3rd parties?"

(Yes, it will cost $50 and you will buy it.)

Blackberry’s 26 Advantages over iPhone

Your pdf linked in item 26 (security - Lopez) is obsolete.

Published in May 09, it has no info on the current iPhone OS 3.0.

I'd be interested in a fresh release of this document.

Smartphones: It's the Software, Stupid!

Smartphones: It's the Developers' Ecosystem, Stupid!

- the only vibrant App marketplace: Apple
- 90% of developer attention: Apple
- dominant in current game development: Apple
- dominant in developer revenue: Apple
- fairest marketplace: Apple
- most efficient, easiest, (and free) SDK: Apple
- dominant game marketer: Apple
- the only micro payments platform: Apple
- etc etc etc

There's only one Apple when viewed from this perspective.

Game over. Set. Match.

Apple: iPhone Now Accounts for 50% of Mobile Web Traffic

@Techtrader

There's only the one iPhone 3G, unless you think the memory 8GB vs 16 GB makes 2 models.

The Ongoing Smartphone Revolution

Apple buying Sony is a bad idea. The 35,000 employees at Apple would be outnumbered by the 100,000 ??? at Sony. This would threaten Apple's unique and incredible culture for focused excellence in all areas of business.

Apple's culture is the goose that laid the golden eggsssssss and you don't want to mess with what they have.