leafsin07
01-24-2007, 09:12 PM
Alex is absolutely right. People are jumping up and down with excitement over the iPhone, not because it's new technology or particularly innovative, it's all about the Apple logo. However...
Kevin is also absolutely right, the phones are completely different. What he is referring to is not a side by side, feature by feature comparison. For Kevin it's the day to day usability of the product that makes all the difference in the world. Everyone who uses Firefox knows that it's not the obvious features of a product that make it better, it's the subtleties of its performance, those little, often unseen things that make the experience smoother.
90% of the hype over the iPhone exists because of the iPod, not OSX. When mp3 players first started hitting the market I owned the cutting edge products from Creative and RCA, but once I owned an iPod there was no going back. Not because I had some mystical brand association with them (I'm a windows guy) but it was simply a much better product. The hype over the iPhone is the assumption that they will revolutionize cellphones in the same way they revolutionized mp3 players.
Alex is right, people have bought into the iPhone before it even hit the shelves, simply because it has an Apple logo, but this brand loyalty was earned in the mp3 market. Kevin is right that the phones may be identical in a side by side comparison but will be worlds apart in functionality.
Kevin is also absolutely right, the phones are completely different. What he is referring to is not a side by side, feature by feature comparison. For Kevin it's the day to day usability of the product that makes all the difference in the world. Everyone who uses Firefox knows that it's not the obvious features of a product that make it better, it's the subtleties of its performance, those little, often unseen things that make the experience smoother.
90% of the hype over the iPhone exists because of the iPod, not OSX. When mp3 players first started hitting the market I owned the cutting edge products from Creative and RCA, but once I owned an iPod there was no going back. Not because I had some mystical brand association with them (I'm a windows guy) but it was simply a much better product. The hype over the iPhone is the assumption that they will revolutionize cellphones in the same way they revolutionized mp3 players.
Alex is right, people have bought into the iPhone before it even hit the shelves, simply because it has an Apple logo, but this brand loyalty was earned in the mp3 market. Kevin is right that the phones may be identical in a side by side comparison but will be worlds apart in functionality.