DWI: What if Apple Iphone hadn't failed to sell?

The Vulture

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Too advanced for the time, I suppose- look at the Edsel.

Not to mention the poor advertising campaign and Microsoft's competing device, the UltraZune.
 
Well, the fact that placing it in your pocket leads to the screen cracking when you sit down may have had something to do with it...
 

NothingNow

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Probably the fact that the only color it came in was orange.
A Rather nice high-gloss orange to be correct but, yeah no-ones going to buy something that only comes in Orange except for the Citrus Growers association. :)
Still, the whole Choice of colors thing is working great on Apple's Desktops and Laptops. In fact I remember that the old iMac G4 didn't sell all that well until they finally introduced colors for them. Heck, my parents actually bought a blue eMac because it matched their living room.

(OOC: I miss having Colorized and/or Painted Computers Especially the old iMac G3 and iBook G3)
 
They might be doing better than Microsoft these days, since the failure of the Iphone made the failure of Vista look minor. But that's just speculation on my part. I'm not to skilled with marketing matters.
 
New top-of-the-line cellular telephone: $600.
Monthly phone bill + connection fee: $75.
Case of bottled beer and 26 of liquor: $50.

Sitting on expensive new cell phone and hearing the screen shatter: Priceless...*

I guess that that is two duds in a row for Apple, what with the iPod Touch featuring the same glaring design flaw as the late and unlamented iPhone.

At least their next-generation laptop will come with integral protection for the screen. I'm willing to be that if either the iPod Touch or the iPhone had been something of a success, then their next laptop would have resembled one of those hand-held computer things from "Star Trek", and would have come with the same fragile screen that made the previous two attempts fail so spectacularly.

OOC: *This MasterCard take off is based on a clever one that I saw at a local electronics store, as an ad for their extended warranty program.

That one went:

New laptop: $800.
Driving to work: $10.
Coffee at Tim Horton's $2.

Watching your new laptop get run over by a truck: Priceless...

And they also had the destroyed laptop on display.
 

NothingNow

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They might be doing better than Microsoft these days, since the failure of the Iphone made the failure of Vista look minor. But that's just speculation on my part. I'm not to skilled with marketing matters.

Well, Since they hold about 20% of the Computing Market I'd say that they're doing fairly well. Especially since Dell only has about 25%, Hewlet-Packard has about 15%, and IBM has about 8% after that it tends to drop off seriously.
 
I wonder with all the money and prestige Apple had invested into the Iphone why did it fail to sell?

Well, unlike the software industry where the large companies have been content to knock out the same product with a little more gloss each year, those Finnish phone companies have actually been innovating for the last 15 years or so.

If Nokia had acted like EA/Adobe, etc., they'd basically be releasing the same phone but with a slightly larger screen or a slightly higher resolution camera each year, instead of creating new ways of using and interacting with the phone.

Multitouch mobile phones have been around for years, and most people already have Nokia Connect accounts with tonnes of MP3s/Downloaded Programs that they've already bought for their old Connect phones. I still play a game I bought in 2003 on my Nokia 7650, and I can listen to a track I downloaded in 1999 on my 3210 (16Mb memory! 4-5 tracks! eek!).

You can access the Nokia social networking/instant messaging stuff on an iPhone but only through a 3rd party app.

Apple have been losing market share in droves since those funny Microsoft adverts with Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates. Did you see the one where they're trying on shoes?
 
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