of kids want an iPad
The Nielsen Company presented a cadre of individuals with a list of nice, shiny gadgets and let them cross off anything and everything they'd like to buy in the next six months, and 31 percent of kids 6-12 picked the iPad as one of them.
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"might be profitable, but it's not a direction that leads to industry relevance or influence."
Hate to tell you this but EVERY business in the world is there for profit not for relevance or influence.
This is all US centric and lets face it the US has the most illogical splintered mobile networks in the world, and yes any phone manufacturer CAN afford to ignore the US because there is a HUGE market outside the US.
@fourthletter
North America has turned the Wireless industry upside down! I don't know any respectable IT department saying "we are going to trust Nokia with our corprate security and drop our current BES servers!"
RIM has created some of the most comfortable keyboards to grace my thumbs ie. BB 9000, 9700 and eve the 8330 was great to hammer out emails on. You don't have to go far to hear about how user friendly the Android OS is. And Apple single-handedly changed the wireless industry by making a HUGE screen and internet access a necessity to have a competitive device in the mobile market. You cannot deny that North America is leading the mobile industry with Innovation and Ease of use.
You would rather have South Korea or Vietnam deciding what your phone is going to look like? Samsung and Pantech?
@Mentat
Uh... he said 'US'. RIM are Canadian. As for innovation, I think this years awards went to HTC for their Sense UI and handsets. Last I looked they ain't American.
@MarkAnderson
So the innovative award should go to a company that takes someone else's idea and adds to it?
this is just proof your opinion doesn't matter