Apple iPhone and App Store Ping!
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Posted on 10/25/2009 11:25:20 PM PDT by Swordmaker
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And this time, Apple is highly unlikely to repeat the mistakes of the Apple II.
What it REALLY is, is a challenge to any other smartphone maker, to get the 85,000 app WRITERS to port the apps to their new platform.
No reason they can't, other than... ummm... oh, right, the iPhone has a few years of support research, libraries, APIs, etc. that the others don't.
Well, c'mon competitors!! Get cracking!!
You don't think the Pre model will work? Pretend to be an iPod and connect to iTunes and just, sorta... you know...
Misappropriating another manufacturer's USB VID/PID is so egregious a breach of modern protocol as to be unmentionable in a professional context.
Identifying oneself as an iPod, yeah, there's precedent for that, look at web browser client identification. But VID/PID is off-limits.
I don't think masquerading will get the competitors nearly close enough in the long run.
I just bought the RedLaser app ($1.99) and tried it on several UPC barcodes I have handy. This is way cool! Super easy to use.
This is a KILLER app. Retail stores are not going to like it... you can shop, find something you like, scan the barcode, and RedLaser instantly tells you the product AND finds you the best pricing available on the Internet. How often have I wondered if I could buy something cheaper on the web but went ahead and coughed up the cash at the store because I was too impatient to wait and go home to do a web search? This will save me money.
I recommend the MotionX GPS Drive - it’s the turn by turn navigation system that others charge $50+ for, only it’s $2.99.
I just bought a iPhone 3GS. It is awesome. By far the best phone I have ever had. Highly recommend it. I have zero complaints. It took me a couple days to figure things out. Now I still have a lot to learn, but I love it. If you have trouble. Just go to youtube and there are usually videos on whatever is your issue. Also you can go to the apple web site.
BTW, I know you can get the 3G ($99), but I recommend the 3GS ($199 and $299), because it has a better signal, longer batter life, video e-mail, and able to run apps that that the 3G cannot. A friend of mine has a 3G and we compared them. The 3GS smoked it.
its the apps and itunes, not the hardware that make iphone above everyone else
3gs has a faster cpu, x2 speed
Of the 85,000 apps, how many are meant to do the same things? What is the minimum number of apps that a competitor needs to have on offer?
What’s nice about it too is that if there is a wireless router in the area it will ask to connect to it. If you do it your house you are beaming off your router.
My favorite app at the moment is Trapster. Basically tells you where all the cops are located. Not that I am speeding, but it does. I quite do not understand how it works, but it works.
There are more serious apps. Just depends what you want.
you have 16 or 32 Gigabites. Most aps are in the KBs and they are rather low. About 1 to 2 KBS. In other words you can put a lot in there.
Quite a few. It is a freewheeling market where apps compete on quality, not so much on price.
As to the minimum number, the iPhone can hold 180 on the screen... but there are ways to load even more. As noted in the article, the mix on any iPhone is different from the mix on another. While the author says "trillions" of different mixes, that is not true... because there are only ~50 million iPhones and iPod touches out there... so that would be the number of combination mixes. How many should a competitor offer to be competitive in functionality? Who knows.
Or alternatively, something the market perceives as better. The article author doesn't recognize this as a possible (better) strategy for a competitor.
Imagine if the iPhone had a carrier like Verizon. Its sales would be unbelievable then.
This is the ONLY reason I haven't bought an iPhone yet. I do have an iPod Touch that i love. But until Verizon gets the iPhone, I'm not going to go to a network that doesn't work in 98% of my state.
I picked up a pair of HTC Hero Android phones this week. Very impressive all the way around. Sprint turn by turn nav comes with it. The bar code scanners blew me away. I have one for shopping, and one that tells nutrition info. Put the scanner on a fuel filter for the boat and BAM it googles it right there. Haven’t had to pay for any apps, and haven’t even scratched the surface of what’s available. Since it looks like most major carriers do or will carry Android phones they will no doubt cut into Apple’s profits.
Apple approached Verizon as their first choice. Verizon was not interested. AT&T was.
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