Explaining Why All other Smartphones Lag Behind iPhone

Posted on May 1, 2008
Filed Under iPhone Games

Before the release of the iPhone (July 4, 2007) there were few option for the users to choose from. I mean the devices that combined a comfortable keyboards for quick typing, camera and an inbuilt music player, the ability to sync with email.

The options were:

1. Palm Treo and BB for Sprint

2. Palm Treo, BB, LG enV and Moto Q for Verizon

3. Palm Treo, BB, HTC for AT&T

4. Ocean for Helio

BB was the owner of the corporate market and RIM was just on its way up into the consumer space. Palm OS was the best user-oriented mobile OS on the market. Everything seemed to go all right. But in a while Palm started experiencing a crisis which resulted in the retreat of the company.

The rest of the smartphones were quite narrow products which could not supply the users with the required functionality.

But here comes the iPhone. You know, it looked like the world was just waiting for a gadget like this to come and take its place. Before the release of the iPhone if you wanted to get a new smartphone you needed to scroll through dozens of similar devices. Now you could have just one. It was different from all of them in the design, in the technology, in the approach and in the know-how. It is what any consumer wants, isn’t it?

In 2007 Apple came with a completely new device. It was the device that could move the borders of the mobile communication. I’m not actually saying that iPhone is a perfect communicator. Of course, it has its own disadvantages (as the absence of flash and java, copy/paste function etc.), but in general it made a real revolution on the mobile market. And if you want my personal opinion on the issue, the major revolution is still to come with the release of the 3G iPhone. Apple simply cannot let down the expectations of the audience. Too much is at stake.

But I still wonder why Sony Ericsson, Nokia, Samsung, and LG, being in the mobile market much longer than Apple, compete with the latter at the equal level? Could you help me answer this question?

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