On this WWDC day

[Andy Tarpinian]

On Jun 10, 2008, at 12:29 PM, Peter Korsten wrote:

> Andy Tarpinian schreef:
>
>> But also
>> lets not forget the iPhone is only now being marketed more as a
>> business class phone we shall see what happens.
>
> We shall indeed. Still, it looks like they didn't do nearly as well  
> with
> the iPhone as they'd hoped. There was no momentum from the iPod  
> carrying it.

While that may be true for europe, it did pretty damn well here and  
totally rode the iPod wave. Problem was Apple just did not have the  
right business model in europe and of course they had an edge phone.  
This changes now. Plus the amount of countries drastically increases.

>
>> I have set up and used tons of blackberrys at work - I like them for
>> what they are, they are very reliable if hardcore email is the sole
>> thing you want them for, but honestly using an iPhone just blows RIM
>> out of the water in so many ways in my opinion. Apple is the number 3
>> smartphone maker worldwide after just 1 year, and let's not forget
>> they are creating new markets.
>
> But what are the percentages we're talking about? Number 3 sounds  
> nice,
> but my impression is that everything other than Blackberry and Nokia
> played a really insignificant role in the smartphone market.

True but think about how apple, brand new to the game beat out  
Motorola and palm and Samsung and Sharp etc...

Worldwide: Nokia 45.2% RIM 13.4% Apple 5.3%
US: RIM 42% Apple 20%

> And don't forget that business phones get bought by companies, not by
> their employees. So it's not the employee that can choose whatever he
> wants (although quite a few of my colleagues have an N95, which is  
> more
> of a gadget phone than the more usual E61i), but the company. And they
> are not impressed by features (where the iPhone 2 still is rather
> unimpressive), but by bottom-line cost.

and what is so impressive about say the E61i over the iPhone? I'm  
curious. And I guess I don't know the cost for phone like this in  
Europe, but high end Nokia type phones would be more expensive than  
say the new iPhone price here.

> So will Apple be able to score the big-earning corporate contracts?

Well apparently as many as 35% of fortune 500 companies have tested  
the iPhone 2.0 software. So we shall see...