iPhone

(Originally posted at Notes @ Facebook on July 8, 2009)

When iPod first came out in year 2001... Steve Jobs market it as "a Mac compatible device that has 5GB of harddisk and you can put 10,000 songs in it." By the way, it can play those music.

So, today, when I go lunch with my friends, we were discussing about the iPhones, Android, Nokia, Samsung, etc etc... so, my answer to them is iPhone is not a phone, you do not need to compare it against windows mobile, etc etc... iPhone is a computer that runs lots of lots of programs... iPhone is another iPod, and by the way, you can make calls with it...

Here are my thoughts...

1. no single phone are able to achieve what iPhone done today.

2. Android is not a threat... really... 1 reasons... 1) look at the name... it is Android...
its OS name not a phone product... so, if you have so many manufacturer doing
the Android phones... guess what.. who is going to have the iTunes store... ALL of
them will have.. and then eventually to make it different among all the brands,
each brand will create their own version of slightly different OS build... then you
will have situation where developers don't know how to develop for which platform...
etc etc..

3. The real threat is Palm Pre. It is by now the only phone that can compete with
iPhone in terms of speed, usability, and functions... And in future, once the
API came out... it will be only develop for Palm device....

4. One big apple disadvantage is cannot change battery. Yes, that is a big no no.
But I am very sure that the love you gave to iPhone will always be bigger than
this small issues...

Btw, second year in the roll, I will be getting my iphone on the first day offering
in singapore.... :)