Well, it seems that the nay sayers were all washed up in their claims that Apple's iPhone would not make much of an impact.
According to mocoNews.net the iPhone continues to roll on, or as I would say "Rocks On". Today, its a whole different story as many are now praising the much-hyped device and backing up that up with some rather interesting statistics.
Google, for one, was shocked when they saw that it had seen 50 times more searches on the iPhone than from any other device! Wow, if thats failure, then I like to know what Apple's nay sayers have been smoking? What ever it is... it isn't very good! Gundotra, Google's head of mobile operations, said, “We thought it was a mistake and made our engineers check the logs again.” I think that maybe the iPhone's nay sayers should check what ever it is that they have been smoking, because, by all accounts, the iPhone's acceptance is the exact opposite of where they said it would be.
Continuing, the same article, from mocoNews.net, also stated that a whopping 95 percent of AT&T's iPhone customers regularly surf the internet! Even more interesting, 30 percent of those using the iPhone were new surfers to the mobile web. Wow, with statistics like that I only hope that whatever I plan to do in the future will be as much as a failure as the iPhone! I can only imagine what Steve Ballmer - you know, the guy who likes to predict failure for just about anything that Apple ever does, is now thinking, as he, hopefully, reads this?
Well, it seems that the iPhone is far, far from the failure that others said it would become, and for proof of that you only have to look at the iPhone's competitors - just about every single one of them is now coming out with a touch screen phone, and phones that bare a striking resemblance to the iPhone! Copying something is indeed the sincerest form of flattery, and by now, the iPhone should be a bright red from blushing.
ComputerWorld who noted that EETimes, (who are covering the Mobile World Congress), quoted that: "It's the User Experience, Stupid", and so it is. Yes, the iPhone's tremendous success is due to the user experience, and the convenience of being able to use it intuitively, easily and in new and novel ways. The iPhone certainly has it's share of iCandy and that too has contributed to the use of the device, despite, what I might add, many others have said would actually retard the phone's acceptance.
What makes the iPhone the success that it is, is also what makes Apple's other products so desirable - the user interface. This is why the Mac is now taking away so much market share from Windows, something that not all that long ago seemed impossible for it or anyone else to do. It is also, I believe, what will make the newly updated Apple TV 2, a huge success - if not Apple's biggest. Apple's TV 2 will succeed and it will be for the same reason - the user's experience from Apple's amazing ability to create easy and fun to use interface's.
Dana Blankenhorn and Paula Rooney stated in their ZDNet blog, that both the iPhone and Google's Android are more of an "internet client" than they are phones. And so they are, which brings to mind, yet another factor in Apple's success's, including that of the iPhone, and it's their ability of Thinking Different! Yes, by thinking different, or out of the box, Apple approaches problems in totally new and different ways that gives us totally new solutions! Solutions that allow us of doing things in unique and different ways, as demonstrated by the iPhone's incredible multi-touch capabilities.
Also reporting for ZDNET's, Jason D. O'Grady and David Morgenstern, reported in their blog that Google and AT&T where "shocked" by the iPhone usage! And indeed they should be, because, despite what the critics have said about the iPhone, it has become a huge success and it has made, in the process, of a lot of those critics look utterly foolish and, frankly, it looks good on them.
Will Apple be able to continue to leverage the iPhone's tremendous success? Will it's competitor's come up with equal or better smart phones?
That question will yet to be answered, but if the iPod is any indication, then yes it will! Apple didn't sit still on the original iPod - it kept improving and advancing the device in ways that completely astounded many, including little old me. Likewise, even though I can't say for certain, I do believe that Apple will advance the iPhone in ways that makes the current model look like the original iPod does to the new iPod Touch! Now that is saying a lot, because as cool as the original iPod was, it now looks ugly and lame in comparison.
In conclusion, I can barely wait to see the second and third generations of the iPhone. Coming from a heritage based on the original, I'm convinced that future generations of iPhone's (and iPod's too) will simply blow our socks off!
And thats my 2 cents 4 this Friday, February 15, 20088.
Google, for one, was shocked when they saw that it had seen 50 times more searches on the iPhone than from any other device! Wow, if thats failure, then I like to know what Apple's nay sayers have been smoking? What ever it is... it isn't very good! Gundotra, Google's head of mobile operations, said, “We thought it was a mistake and made our engineers check the logs again.” I think that maybe the iPhone's nay sayers should check what ever it is that they have been smoking, because, by all accounts, the iPhone's acceptance is the exact opposite of where they said it would be.
Continuing, the same article, from mocoNews.net, also stated that a whopping 95 percent of AT&T's iPhone customers regularly surf the internet! Even more interesting, 30 percent of those using the iPhone were new surfers to the mobile web. Wow, with statistics like that I only hope that whatever I plan to do in the future will be as much as a failure as the iPhone! I can only imagine what Steve Ballmer - you know, the guy who likes to predict failure for just about anything that Apple ever does, is now thinking, as he, hopefully, reads this?
Well, it seems that the iPhone is far, far from the failure that others said it would become, and for proof of that you only have to look at the iPhone's competitors - just about every single one of them is now coming out with a touch screen phone, and phones that bare a striking resemblance to the iPhone! Copying something is indeed the sincerest form of flattery, and by now, the iPhone should be a bright red from blushing.
ComputerWorld who noted that EETimes, (who are covering the Mobile World Congress), quoted that: "It's the User Experience, Stupid", and so it is. Yes, the iPhone's tremendous success is due to the user experience, and the convenience of being able to use it intuitively, easily and in new and novel ways. The iPhone certainly has it's share of iCandy and that too has contributed to the use of the device, despite, what I might add, many others have said would actually retard the phone's acceptance.
What makes the iPhone the success that it is, is also what makes Apple's other products so desirable - the user interface. This is why the Mac is now taking away so much market share from Windows, something that not all that long ago seemed impossible for it or anyone else to do. It is also, I believe, what will make the newly updated Apple TV 2, a huge success - if not Apple's biggest. Apple's TV 2 will succeed and it will be for the same reason - the user's experience from Apple's amazing ability to create easy and fun to use interface's.
Dana Blankenhorn and Paula Rooney stated in their ZDNet blog, that both the iPhone and Google's Android are more of an "internet client" than they are phones. And so they are, which brings to mind, yet another factor in Apple's success's, including that of the iPhone, and it's their ability of Thinking Different! Yes, by thinking different, or out of the box, Apple approaches problems in totally new and different ways that gives us totally new solutions! Solutions that allow us of doing things in unique and different ways, as demonstrated by the iPhone's incredible multi-touch capabilities.
Also reporting for ZDNET's, Jason D. O'Grady and David Morgenstern, reported in their blog that Google and AT&T where "shocked" by the iPhone usage! And indeed they should be, because, despite what the critics have said about the iPhone, it has become a huge success and it has made, in the process, of a lot of those critics look utterly foolish and, frankly, it looks good on them.
Will Apple be able to continue to leverage the iPhone's tremendous success? Will it's competitor's come up with equal or better smart phones?
That question will yet to be answered, but if the iPod is any indication, then yes it will! Apple didn't sit still on the original iPod - it kept improving and advancing the device in ways that completely astounded many, including little old me. Likewise, even though I can't say for certain, I do believe that Apple will advance the iPhone in ways that makes the current model look like the original iPod does to the new iPod Touch! Now that is saying a lot, because as cool as the original iPod was, it now looks ugly and lame in comparison.
In conclusion, I can barely wait to see the second and third generations of the iPhone. Coming from a heritage based on the original, I'm convinced that future generations of iPhone's (and iPod's too) will simply blow our socks off!
And thats my 2 cents 4 this Friday, February 15, 20088.
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