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Fuzzy Logic US iPhone sales go ballistic in July
Fuzzy Logic US iPhone sales go ballistic in July | US iPhone sales go ballistic in July |
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| by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Wednesday, 05 September 2007 | |
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iSuppli says that although it doesn’t have the historical data to compare, the iPhone looks to have achieved the fastest initial penetration and sales of any phone ever, especially for a brand new player facing so much existing and very big competition. iSuppli’s report says that the iPhone, in both 4 and 8GB configurations, sold more than any Blackberry, Palm or smartphone from Nokia, Samsung or Samsung. That’s quite an achievement – Nokia sells more phones in total in a quarter than Apple sells in iPods in a year, but then that’s one of the reasons why Apple and Steve Jobs went into the cell phone/connected Internet device/media player/mobile computer business in the first place – iPod volumes are tiny compared to the incredibly massive cell phone market. After all, just when you think saturation has hit, new phone models come along boasting ever better features that cause people to upgrade, such as high megapixel cameras, great mp3 and video playback capabilities, multi-gigabyte internal memory, 3.5G or EVDO connectivity, GPS mapping, push email, a rich library of third party software, Wi-Fi, VoIP and mobile Skype capabilities and more are all hot features on today’s smartphones, some of which are glaringly missing from the iPhone, which nevertheless has managed to take top spot in its first month of official existence. In addition, phones get lost, stolen, dropped into water or a toilet, accidentally washed in the clothes washing machine, dropped, accidentally driven over or left on the top of the car before getting in and subsequently getting smashed when they fly off into the road at high speed. There’s always a market for new mobile phones, now more than ever, especially for advanced features that really do deliver. And this is where the iPhone shines through, offering users a revolutionary new interface that, even with the small quibbles all iPhone owners put up with, has simply set the new standard for all mobile devices which everyone else must catch up to and try to better as quickly as possible, fostering a new level of competition and evolution in natural interfaces, giving us a better and more natural command of computers through natural interaction than ever before. It’s developments like these that bring sci-fi into sci-fact that much faster. For more than 20 years, the computer has been a box with a screen, keyboard and mouse. Yes, today we have great graphical interfaces in Windows, Mac OS X and different flavors of Linux, but we’re not that far evolved from Windows 95 or Mac OS 7, and character based DOS before that. What we’re using is still just an advanced evolution of what we had before. So, where’s the revolution in the latest computer interfaces, and what does this mean for iPhone clones from competitors, and future iPhones from Apple itself? Please read onto page 2 for the answers... |
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