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“If you stay up late and watch an infomercial, and they’re touting this new device that’s actually a pressure cooker, and they say how wonderful it prepares vegetables and meats, and it’s the same technology you’ve had around for a long time, but it’s in a new package — that’s kind of how I look at the iPhone,” said Bill Hughes, principal analyst for In-Stat, which does market research and analysis of advanced communications services.
“I really haven’t considered it a smartphone, and I don’t know that I still do,” he said. “A smartphone is a device that has an operating system that allows you to write native applications” for the phone."
“The other smartphone environments give (third-party software) developers much more capabilities” than those demonstrated by Apple on Thursday, he said, referring to RIM’s BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Symbian and “even the not-too-distant future-Linux” platform.
What's OS X, Mr. Hughes, chopped liver? This guy is an analyst?
Of course, what should we expect from Microsoft NBC???
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Jean-Louis Gassée would have referred to him as an "anal-ist" …
I’d like to try Citrix on an iPhone, but I don’t think it’s possible.
The iPhone is not going to compete well against the upcoming 9000 series Blackberries for the simple fact that younger business people are going to be able to swap from their 7XXX or 8XXX series blackberry directly to the new sexy touchscreen multimedia WiFi EVDO high megapix camera/videocam 9000 series.
Did I mention I’ve been holding out on buying a new cell phone? My 8800 is fantastic, and I even went and d/l’ed the SDK and have my phone virtualized on my PC.
The iPhone still can’t hold over 599 contacts and doesn’t even have a properly functioning notes synching software. Apple is basicly starting from scratch. RIM has so many 3rd party programs I’ve never been able to think of a an idea for a new Blackberry app that isn’t already out there.
Cost is a big issue with large corporations. Why pay for hardware you don’t need. The company that I Installed blackberries for disables many of the features such as playing music. They were left with GPS, email,phone and internet. Before business would go for then they would need to drop the price and add more carries.
I showed my iPod Touch to someone who had just bought a Blackberry, told her that the iPhone is that plus a phone and internet everywhere, and she looked at her Blackberry with that “Is it too late to return it?” look.
I simply love the iPhone, but typing on it sucks..
How about voice dialing? Every cheap phone has voice dialing, but the iPhone doesn’t. The iPhone is useless to people who drive, since it can’t be used truly hands free.
It already has - I know a handful of previous Blackberry users who now are iPhone users...
The iphone is a great device, but will not replace the BlackBerry as a business tool. As someone who deals with BlackBerry’s everyday, there is no fear in the business sector of the iphone taking any substancial business from RIM. There is a great market in the retail and casual user side that iphone markets well to, but as a business tool, it is still lacking. IMO.
If Apple had a CDMA version of the iPhone, I’d get one in a nanosecond.
The iPhone is a POS. My wife carries one only becuase her boss gave it to her. You cannot make the ringer loud enough for an admittedly middle-aged ear to hear, typing is clumsy at best, and until it will support Domino mail servers, the anwser to the title question is No F’n Way.
I’d like to get into this argument but, since the only mobile phone service that I can get a signal at either my home (in Maryland) or my cabin (in north central PA) is Verizon Wireless, having an iPhone would be a useless proposition for me.
It’s always boggled my mind that in the Baltimore area Cingular/ATT has swiss cheese for coverage while Verizon Wireless coverage is pretty much flawless in the area.
I still believe Apple went with the wrong service provider.