Rumors are heaping up that Apple may introduce, in early October, a smaller, simpler, and much cheaper iPhone, along, one assumes, with a refreshed full-featured one.
I think that would be a great move. For me, personally and emotionally, I don't see how one can live without an iPhone, though strangely I only felt that way after the iPhone 4 came out (to be honest I think the look of the thing was a big factor for me. And the great camera. Uh, and screen.). But people I know who doesn't have one mostly say "it's way too expensive". So if Apple really could come out with a model which has the bulk of the capability, but is maybe $200 instead of $600, that should be a hit. Especially the current wintry economic climate, where big numbers of middle-class households are really squeezed.
It'll be interesting to see what features they could omit on such a model to reduce cost, nothing really leaps to mind. But if Amazon can sell a 7-inch Android tablet for $200, it should be possible.
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This just in! WOW! Lookit: "Android accounts for 43% of the U.S. market for smartphone operating systems, while Apple has 28%, according to Nielsen Co." Now, that *really* took my breath away! That's a damn BIG piece o' the market!! I had no idea!
And...it sounds like I'm not the only one grumbling re: Sprint not being part of the huddle so...IF it happens, that will be a GOOD MOVE on their part!
I also find it "fascinating" that, although "the company doesn't interview consumers about what they want in the next generation of products; instead, Apple challenges its designers to come up with dramatic visions for what products can do." they STILL have such a LARGE herd of sheep! AMAZING! I would always want to know what the end-users wants!! Isn't that what "customer service" is ALL about?! (weird!)
Should be interesting! Hang on just a few more hours! :-)
Oh yeah, that's today, the Apple even, I'd actually forgotten.
Jobs said, once you've developed what people say they wanted, they'll want something else.
And nobody wanted a tablet, but everybody wants the iPad.
Occasionally it fails, of course, like the Cube.
Eolake said...
"Jobs said, once you've developed what people say they wanted, they'll want something else."
That's OK; "JOB SECURITY!" ;-D
"And nobody wanted a tablet, but everybody wants the iPad.
Occasionally it fails, of course, like the Cube."
Good points!
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