Originally Posted by
kbz1960 Not to speak for someone else but I think the point was that many say RIM rehashes the same thing with small upgrade and apple does the same thing but yet the same ones think that is OK because they work.
Why doesn't apple get up to date with quad core processors etc. that android has? For.the same reason RIM has not. I know the software runs fine on the hardware. I don't know, does android run fine on a single core? Do they need quad core processors to run fine?
I agree software is a big part why computing devices sell but there are also a lot of people that know nothing about the hardware but hearing this has a single core processor and this one has a quad core processor that will go, ohhhhhhh quard core....."doughnuts".
It is very simple, Apple is seeing as much as 60% YOY product sales growth across most of it's business lines. This is because of the entire ecosystem and seamless integration of all devices as well as the total user experience. Many competitors are spec chasing to try to one-up themselves over the competition. Apple appears to see where the market is going and in many ways can move the market move in a direction that they desire. Competitors are forced to react to what Apple makes popular. No need for Apple to attempt to spec chase the competition.
Take NFC for example, this is an advantage that RIM has over Apple on the phones. Could Apple add this feature if they wanted? I am sure they could. But, I would suspect that they don't see it being needed at the time. The NFC tech has been around for a decade but it hasn't taken off. No need to put it on the device. Jobs was a big adherent to saying "no" to things that didn't work and this was how he turned around the company.
RIM on the other hand, projects an image of trying to be a leader and innovator, yet their product release track record shows it only to be hype thus far. The playbook is a perfect example of trying to out-spec the competition. How many spec type pre-launch promises were made. (DLNA, 4G sprint, Android player, Flash). This is why they are beaten up for at least not matching the specs of devices that are one year old. I am hoping that the QNX experiment is what RIM is promoting it to be, but I haven't seen proof yet.