Thread: Europe resists: iPhone doesn't sell
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2008-04-23 , 12:58
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Originally Posted by Jaffa View Post
All good points. But the article doesn't say that consumers aren't buying the iPhone because of its UI, it says they're too expensive or don't provide the connectivity features wanted in European markets.

And I still see more iPhones on a daily commute than N8x0s :-(
It says it doesn't sell. And the reason why it sells in the US in the first place is its design and user interface. (It's expensive in the US, too. And it doesn't have many of the features other smartphones have - neither in Europe nor in the US.)

The difference is that consumers in the US seem to buy it because they really like what it offers (a different UI) regardless of what it costs and what it can do technically. If it doesn't sell in Europe, we have to assume that consumers here don't think design/UI is such a big thing. They're not willing to pay more or sacrifice functionality for a UI.

As for my commuter experience:
0 iPhones
1 N800
Not a representative sample (Even though the guy with the N800 had a very interesting software and I wasn't able to figure out what exactly it was. I should have asked him.)
Last edited by benny1967; 2008-04-23 at 13:05.