I'll never understand how this big market dominating corporation misses trend completely obvious to the rest of the world thing works.
How long is it since the iPhone was released/unveiled? Almost three years? What did they think back than? 'Ohhoho, it's way too damn intuitive to control, there's no challenge any more with this! And who would want a phone without a stylus, I mean, a stylus you can use for sooo many things, it may even save your life one day!'
And what did they think in the fall of 2008 when the G1 came out? Stupid Google gies, in about a year we will have an almost totally unchanged version of our dated looking slow and sluggish symbian OS out. Then they will be sorrow for entering our market!
I think it's because they actually know what the world wants - low cost, full feature smartphones. That's why they sell more of them than the next two manufacturers combined.
Don't confuse what the tech community wants with what the consumer wants.
For those looking for a device strictly for reading, the new Kobo is a nice little option. It's small enough to slip into a pocket, can do more with a PDF than the competition, and at $129, it's $10 cheaper than both the Nook and Kindle WiFi.
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I'll never understand how this big market dominating corporation misses trend completely obvious to the rest of the world thing works.
How long is it since the iPhone was released/unveiled? Almost three years? What did they think back than? 'Ohhoho, it's way too damn intuitive to control, there's no challenge any more with this! And who would want a phone without a stylus, I mean, a stylus you can use for sooo many things, it may even save your life one day!'
And what did they think in the fall of 2008 when the G1 came out? Stupid Google gies, in about a year we will have an almost totally unchanged version of our dated looking slow and sluggish symbian OS out. Then they will be sorrow for entering our market!
I mean, wtf.
@astrath Exactly.
transparencies and transitions? Way to go guys. Sounds like Microsoft right before they launched Vista.
@astrath
I think it's because they actually know what the world wants - low cost, full feature smartphones. That's why they sell more of them than the next two manufacturers combined.
Don't confuse what the tech community wants with what the consumer wants.