| billybobjones |
2011-06-21 22:15 |
Re: The EPIC N9 anticipation thread
Quote:
Originally Posted by Diavoli
(Post 1035291)
I agree with your assessment on additional added apps which do appeal to the people that actually use them, but is that the real deal breaker to purchasing a smart phone for lets say a person like my sister, unless its something which affects her daily life, I'm not so sure. Like the previous poster said about his wife, my sister in all honesty have seen her use her phone like this:
Facebook updates 30 percent
Messaging/email 30 percent
Random web surfing to look at chanel or louis vuitton purses, US magazine updates, youtube, 20 percent
Talking 20 percent
Now I don't want to be gender biased or how many females actually buy a smartphone, but lets say they represent 50 percent of the marketplace, and a high percentage of them are basically users like my sister, thats alot of people that basically want something that is nice to look at and easy to use.
Right now compared to the N9, Iphone4 looks so outdated in terms of:
Examples:
Different colours-N9
Camera-N9
screen size-N9
Design-N9
Reception-N9
Wow factor/Showing off to friends-N9
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While I don't disagree with you, let me share a story about a client of mine. He's on the board of a large company, and also has a few side business one of which, a race track, just got robbed. The company that takes care of his security had created an app for ios where you can see real time updates when the motion detectors are triggered as well as the ability to view each camera that is installed.
Because of this one app. He's switched over some 30 employees from blackberry to iphone. His spouse is now also using an iphone and most of his employee's spouses have also followed suit. In addition to this, the large company of whom he's on the board of directors has, at his suggestion, also switched from blackberry to the iphone, this is over 300 phones. iOS gained around 350 phones from just one misc app and as iOS continues to gain market traction, this is going to become more and more common.
People are going to come across an app from iOS or Android that they really want or need and switch just for that. Once you've started using these ecosystems you're tied in. lets say you start buying some ibooks or music via itunes, you start purchasing some games and other apps, pretty soon, you've got a decent investment going in this ecosystem and no amount of all the swiping in the world is going to get you to switch. These scenarios are also exactly why, in my opinion, Nokia decided to ditch Symbian and go with Microsoft.
The reason I even commented about all this in the first place, was because, someone sounded pretty shocked that people were disappointed with the N9. Here I'm thinking that after 2 years of development they've introduced a phone that is hardly an upgrade from the N900. It's missing features that the N8 and E7 have and hardware wise, is behind phones coming out now and when it starts retailing in a couple months will be even more behind.
All this to say, if you really want to disrupt the market and swing people away from android and iOS you're going to need to do a whole lot more than the N9 and Swipe. Harmatten is pretty and it's cool, there are great features, it is an upgrade from the N900, but It's definitely not a 600 euro upgrade |
