Maybe you guys should prove your chops with the phone first?
Also, too, such as:
BlackBerry Porsche P9981: RIM Fiddles While Rome is Burning
RIM is releasing a product that epitomizes its lack of vision: The Blackberry Porsche P9981.
The device is essentially a Blackberry 9900 in a designer outfit, with a stainless steel body and a leather case. Retail price: $2,000. Market: wealthy, image-conscious tech laggards?
So, does Blackberry think this is what enterprises want?
RIM has delayed the 2.0 release of its tablet’s Playbook OS until 2012, and admitted it won’t have the BlackBerry email app. PlayBook users will only be able to do BlackBerry email on their tablets by linking with a BlackBerry phone
They included HDMI video but not email or calendar because they’re enterprise experts.
So, Nokia thinks that after $400 carrier subsidy, folks are going to pony up $185 when they can get an iPhone 4S for $199 or an iPhone 4 for $99? What’s the value proposition? Metro? Ok, then
“If the Lumia 800 appears like a well rounded phone with a nice and fairly distinctive design (similar to the N9), I see the launch price point as a deal breaker. I don’t think Nokia can regain anything in the $580 price band, in which Android and iOS probably have over 95% market share. This phone [is] condemned to be either anecdotic or go through massive price cuts in the next 6 months.
I see a TouchPad like price cut in the future.
Steve Ballmer CES 2010: A Transforming Trend — The Natural User Interface
And Apple blows it up with Siri. LOL.
I cant wait for Ballmer’s next talk about VUIs. Also, its more than 4 years ago now when dome-head uttered this:
“There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance”
Mango or Papaya or whatever sold a total of 1.6MM phones, leading the footstool to utter this:
“I’m not saying I love where we are, but I’m very optimistic to where I think we can be,”
So the clog believes in hope and change, ehh?
Anyway:
Oh. I’m sure its all marketing and some such brain-washing
Marketplace Morning plays checkbox journalism:
Apple is suing Samsung for creating lookalike products. Samsung is suing back. Who will win?
JENNIFER COLLINS: Full disclosure: I have a Samsung smartphone, and sometimes people mistake it for an iPhone.
Yep, that’s the crux of the lawsuit. Apple wants Samsung to stop copying everything Apple does. In fact, it may have been important to point out that Steve Jobs personally requested Samsung CEO to change the look and avoid a lawsuit. Just the look. Because it was completely mimicking the iPhone
So why would Apple go after its supplier? And why would Samsung fight back?
Because Apple wants Samsung to create their own look & feel and not piggyback on Apple’s design (the phone, packaging, fonts, icon placements, adaptors etc.)
Lichtman says its likely Samsung will pay Apple a licensing fee and be forced to stop producing lookalike products.
Wrong. Apple does not play the patent troll, licensing scheme. It is out of character. Apple wants one of two resolutions: (a) Samsung stop making phones, tablets that completely mimic the iPhone or (b) Samsung stop making phones, tablets. Period.
A better analyst would have known that. A better journalist would have found that out.
The Samsung device costs $230 and the HTC phone is $260, both with two-year wireless contracts, while the new iPhone 4S starts at $199.
“People want to make an investment in a phone and keep it for years,” Mr. Sherrard said. “Even at that price, they will choose to get a higher-quality product.”
And people will choose a crappy phone that’s more expensive on a network no one cares about because … ?
After 5 years on the market, billions spent on development and advertising a gigantic presence in stores, if Microsoft is really going to discontinue the Zune, they must first tell us what it was.
Podcast link.
Windows Phone, This Time With Marketing
Few remember that when Microsoft launched Windows Phone last fall, it accompanied the release with a fairly excellent set of ads. Called “Really?” after the silly smart phone induced scenes they portrayed, the ads actually did a great job of showing that Microsoft’s mobile OS wasn’t a me-too release like iPhone or Android. But the “Really?” ads came and went, and that was pretty much it: Windows Phone then disappeared under a year of near silence.
Sorry, bud. This is a wounded brand. No amount of marketing is gonna fix this. The only thing that may work is collecting vig, err, patent trolling Android manufacturers to death until they drop Android and switch to Mongo or Mango or whatever it is
Windows Phone 7 Marketing: Message More Important than Money
Microsoft is reportedly set to spend half a billion dollars on a marketing blitz to promote the upcoming launch of Windows Phone 7. For the sake of the success of Windows Phone 7, hopefully Microsoft understands that getting the right message in front of the right people is more important than randomly filling media with advertising.
I’m sure this time it’ll be different. ‘Cause after all, marketing is all that Apple does, right?
Buy, howdy, the pundits were so right to be disappointed with the iPhone 4S launch:
Apple: Piper Sees ‘iPhone 4S’ Sales Assured By 3GS Switchers
No sh*t!
Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster this morning writes that Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone 3GS could be the springboard for iPhone 4S purchases, estimating that 18.8 million users of the older model “are likely to upgrade to the iPhone 4S.”
That would amount to roughly 68% of the iPhone 3GS units shipped prior to the iPhone 4′s introduction.
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