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Originally Posted by Reggie View Post
But then again, let's not forget how apple has made the iPhone so user friendly. As an end-user who don't know anything about the iPhone, you just know that if you want to purchase music, run the iPod within the iPhone. Same with apps -- just run the App Store app and you get to download free and commercial apps easily.
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Now, you have the GPS built in running on top of the Google Map app, which also seamlessly integrate with the contacts app.
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I guess what we can see is how important integration is, and how end-user focused Apple really is. You'll be amazed how people don't mind paying for a premium as long as you get what you pay for.
Probably one of the smartest things ever said in those basicly repetitive iPhone vs. NIT threads.
What amazes me about Nokia is that they never ever manage to get the overall user experience right. I'm not talking about user interfaces and exe candy. I'm talking about: how does the first time user find some new themes to play around with? Music? Videos? Software? Just to try, just to have an idea of what the device could do.

Nokia manages to completely ignore this, both with their phones and with their tablets. There's not one single site in this frustrating online-maze they set up where you could just go and download all this for the one device you have.

I really think Apple is on the wrong track and I'd never buy anything from them for various reasons, but they got this one thing right. They managed to establish a one stop shop for whatever you could want to have on your device. And my estimation is that this one fact makes up for 80% of their current success. It can't be all that difficult to at least put up a website? Hello? Anybody home in Finnland?
 

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