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This is what iPhone+AT&T can't do -- Sprint says ... Pretty logical and intriguing advertising. But -- in my personal view -- probably not exactly so smart.
I wonder why Sprint has to 'attack the Apple market?'. Apple's strong iPhone OS and massive number of beautiful application makes Apple totally difficult object to penetrate nor attack. Beside that: Apple iPhone is definitely the innovation leader -- as strong as Palm WebOS strength today.
On the contrary, the Blackberry market seem relatively more possible to snap. Blackberry's current OS is definitely totally so-so, their Storm proposition and its implementation is relatively still awful (as of today), yet at the sametime the Blackberry market is huge -- hence opening possibility for future avalanche to happen (once the initial seed is successful).
I seriously wonder why Sprint has to attack Apple. In my view, the better, larger, (and perhaps relatively 'easier') target is definitely Blackberry.
We'll see how the future goes. :-)
My old school friend Dedi Ekasa highlight a fascinating point:
Dedi Ekasa at 10:55am June 28 (on FB)
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Only blackberry fanatics are still using blackberry right now. They weren't interested in iPhone then, why would they be interested in Palm now ? ;-).
In which I share this view:
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Arvino Mudjiarto at 1:43pm June 28 (on FB)
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Hehehehe .. :-D .. perhaps what i forgot to mention is I ment for Palm to gunning 1. 'Blackberry wannabes' (aka now not yet using Blackberry nor smartphone, and plan to) & 2. 'Blackberry user that wants to upgrade to Storm or touch interface'. ;-)
Those are markets that still growing (& expanding) at rapid pace.
Yet for the current Blackberry fans, probably they won't switch now, but 2-4 years later -- as the BB OS 'aging' -- their condition & believe system might change.
As history of computing/gadgets/techno-stuff shows: at the 'right inflection point' techno-fans ready to shift (& they do shift).
See how a few years back 'everybody' was an O2 fans, a few years later they are all 'suddenly' an HTC fans, then in past few years 'everybody' suddenly become 'blackberry' fans.
When Blackberry fans ready to move on beyond 'emailing + chatting' only, Palm shall grab that chance. After all, before we are all Blackberry, HTC, O2 fans, most of us we 'all' once were .. a ... Palm fans!
Posted by: Arvino Mudjiarto | June 28, 2009 at 02:07 PM