Thread: N9 [Shipping]: It's finally here [for some]!
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2011-07-11 , 13:17
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Originally Posted by ericsson View Post
The iPhone is saturated. The 3gs is still selling, and the 4 has a long way before reaching the numbers of the 3gs. The 5 will only push down prices of the 3gs and the 4, and that may be bad enough (for Nokia), but it does nothing wrt early adopters. There is nothing new and fresh about the iPhone anymore, and the 5 is only yet another re-iteration of the old.
Problem (from my perspective anyway) is that even though I work in a highly technical environment, probably half of the developers here have iPhones, and many of them will just get the 5 when it's available.

A straw poll of a few colleagues gives reasons for continuing with the iPhone such as:
  • I'm too invested in my app store/iTunes experience to change now
  • App store has apps
  • It's an iPhone! (said tongue in cheek, but she's still gonna get the 5)

Obviously I don't consider any of these to be good reasons, but they do, and they won't be buying an N9 even after conceding that in many ways it is objectively more desirable than the 4 (and maybe even the 5).
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