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Originally Posted by sapporobaby View Post
Hmmmm...... Considering Apple is selling a boat load of iPods pretty much the same way the are selling the iPhone, I would say that your supposition is way off. To compare an iPhone to an N800 is once again proof (in my opinion) that the US is immature when it comes to moblie telephony. The RAZR was a big hit with women who wanted a small compact, colorful device that did not do very much and had rudimentary features that were already prevalent in European and Japanese handsets. The iPhone will sell based on hype, ease of use, feature sets, and a reliability factor (this has not been proven yet but considering the failure rates of other devices, the iPhone should hold up well), integration with iTunes. People forget that the killer app that made the iPod was iTunes. With seamless integration and a duplicated ease of use, the iPhone will be viewed as an extension to those that have an iPod but want to have a phone with them as well as a device for the MASS CONSUMER MARKET which the N800 is not nor ever will be.
I don't think so. Cell phone industry today is different then mp3 player industry was when iPod came. There is abundance of cheap/free phones that already do a lot of what iPhone does. Granted not as shiny as iPhone. But my BB Pearl was free! And it has all the features I need in a phone, email, web, chat, news, stocks, weather, games, music, video...

Again, yes, Apple will sell iPhones, no it will not take over the world. There is a big difference between the two. Apple groupies would like us to believe the latter. I don't buy it. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't too.