tommylee

Looks Like We're Still a BlackBerry Nation

I respectfully disagree, because iPhone and Blackberry are not competitors. There is nothing competing with the iPhone, since there is nothing out there with the exception of the android and maybe the Palm Pre (although for the Palm Pre to even have a chance to survive the next couple of months it clearly has to be better, not equal, than the iPhone). We all know that when the Palm pre was presented it had some comparative edge to the iPhone, which the iPhone 3.0 has since already erased and then some.

The reason why a comparison of the iPhone and RIMM products is "accepted" is because people would like to put them in the same market since that is the only way they can fathom/understand the product. Even Apple is guilty of that by calling it in first instance a "smartphone".

It's like comparing a donkey and a Roll Royce. Both are transportation, but to put them in the same league because of "Shared Market" would be undermining my intelligence. A Market segment is defined by point of utilization. Collectively we have not yet defined what "point of utilization" is for the iPhone but for the same reason we could not put the faxmachine in the same league with the phone some 20 odd years ago, we cannot just for lack of better understanding of its capabilities, state it's a phone. Because if that would be true than i can imagine that the iPhone has an equal "shared market" with xBox, playstation and nintendo, yet nobody has put them into that equation.


On Apr 26 11:17 AM Mac'em X wrote:

> @tommylee: "...I don't understand why analysts keep on insisting
> to draw an analogy between RIMM and Apple or any other phone maker
> for that matter. They are simply not in the same league."
>
> Perhaps so - "same league" is a subjective term - but the products
> are in the same market, and analogies related to their shared market
> are understandable.
>
> I prefer the iPhone and agree with you that it'll take the lead,
> for reasons including those you mention. But making comparisons between
> it and competitors is valid (and will remain valid even when the
> iPhone is firmly on top. : )