Thread: iPhone and iPod Touch SDK is amazing... Wow.
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Originally Posted by sherifnix View Post
There is no doubt Nokia sells a crap ton of S60 devices Whats funny is that people aren't using the features on them. I know a few girls with N75's here in the US and they have NO idea what the hell S60 is or that they can install apps. To them its just a camera phone and they paid extra for the bigger screen. Its poorly marketed and very confusing for them. These girls all loaded the browser once or twice and just gave up because it was a pain in the *** to use. They pick my iPhone up and they are on Facebook in 5 seconds.

Apple has 2% of the worldwide smartphone market and it has 50 times the web traffic than any other mobile. Google assumed it was an error and had their engineers recheck the data. Haha!

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/667f13de-da6...0779fd2ac.html

Goes to show you that software design is everything. Apple's opportunity here is that they can sell services that people want. Having an AppStore and iTunes Store right there without any configuration is so great. This simply isn't there on any Nokia device S60 or Maemo.

A few taps and you're in a catalog of 3rd party apps. No dependencies, repositories... or digging in your settings to find some setting to allow apps without certificates to install since nothing is really certified. S60 and Maemo are way behind Apple's delivery platform.
Interesting, but in a way, it reminds me of the classic "Is Linux ready for the desktop" news article / blog post. My response is usually to yell at the monitor:
"Who gives a hoot if it's ready for the desktop?! It does what I want it to.
No, on second thought, may it never be ready for the desktop. O Great Modem in the Sky, spare us the torment of n00bish legions who know naught, and yet strive to know less!"

They pick up an iPhone, and in 5 seconds, they're on facebook. They should all buy iPhones. All the smart, or rather computer-competent, people should buy NITs and S60 phones. That'll keep the itT forums sane.

While it's interesting to see iPhones getting far more than their share of use for Google sources, it'd be interesting to see how other devices stack up in terms of googles/month/device sold. I think the N8x0s, even with their limited connectivity, would likely beat them. The iPhone is marketed heavily as an internet device, unlike most smartphones. The NITs are, too, and so a comparison would be interesting. Of course, unless Nokia is publishing sales figures of N800s, we probably can't see any such results.