One thing is for sure: the competition is harsh and several manufacturers have launched what they claim could easily kill the iPhone 3G. HTC has thrown into the market HTC Touch Pro and HTC Diamon, Google and has done the same with its G1-T-Mobile powered with Android, while Samsung prepares two killer models: Omnia and Innov8. Nokia? The number one cell phone maker has jumped into the hybrid between smart-phone and PDA-phone market by throwing in Nokia 5800 Xpress Music. From two different corners Sony-Ericsson and Blackberry compete in hammering iPhone by launching their intelligent business gadgets: SE Xperia XI and both Blackberry Storm and Bold. The question is, who can kill such a ‘name’: Apple?
The problem with this particular competition is not just a war of technologies, rather a war of names. So the episode would be iPhone Vs The Rest! iPhone has its exclusive technology called ‘multi-touch’ which makes it a millimeter above the rest. However, its application store has made it even more millimeters higher: complete, easily downloaded and installed, and sure…. its prestige of being an ‘Apple’. Around the world millions of people of different skin colors and nationalities have sung together their ‘Apple Hymn’ or rather ‘Apple Anthem’ and make them distant from the rest who do not have nor use iPhone.
So, the very question is resounded again and again: is there any iPhone killer yet? Probably, only Steve Jobs and the late Peter F Drucker know the answer. (AC Mahendra K Datu)
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