IPhone Killers & Letting Problems Pull Your Strings

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by Tichy • 17 years ago

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>Can you imagine anything more ridiculous than a bunch of CEOs of Verizon, and Google, and Sony Ericsson, and Nokia, sitting around the table, and going "How are we going to answer the iPhone ?"

Unfortunately, you will rot and die a sad and painful death if you don't do precisely that. As a company, you always have to respond to your competitors. Whether you choose to do that by trying to catch up to your competitors or blow the competition away is what matters.

junklight2• 17 years ago

Sadly the answer to "how are we going to answer the iphone" is not anything surprising or interesting - the answer is usually - "lets make our own iphone a-like and customers will buy it because they don't want to buy Apple or because they are tied to a different network" and I think that is what the article is getting at.

if the answer was: "ok people like small gadgets that are connected (for example iphones and netbooks). Let us see what we can come up with" - then perhaps we would see something better.

bitwize• 17 years ago

Like it or not, Steve Jobs is a trendsetter for the electronics industry, and the strategy of aping his successes generally tends to work out well for other players. For example, if it weren't for large, established companies knocking off whatever Apple is doing, Windows wouldn't exist.

pkulak• 17 years ago

"Don't start with 'solving a problem' because what you are really doing is polishing before you have a thing to polish."

This taken out of context would be all wrong. I never build anything that's not going to solve some core problem my users have. I think, though, that he means, "Don't start with solving a problem inherent to your, or a competitor's, product."

martythemaniak• 17 years ago

"Apple is the David (relatively speaking) that's got these Goliaths on the run."

When is this ridiculous idea going to die the death it deserves? Apple is not anything even remotely resembling a small, agile, outgunned company up against other giants. It is a Goliath that frequently crushes other Davids.

People point to the iPhone and say how they took over an industry. Yes, much like Microsoft did with the XBOX, when a tech giant decides to go into a new industry, you generally have to watch out. MS played their hands well and now they're a major player in the games industry, likewise Apple did the same with the iPhone

aaronz3• 17 years ago

I'd love to see Apple come out with a game console. I don't know if it would destroy 360/PS3 per say, but I think the Wii would be an easy target.

papachito• 17 years ago

How about Mac Vs PC ads from apple? Does that make apple "against Microsoft", whatever that means...

IPhone Killers & Letting Problems Pull Your Strings

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