Don't we have enough Apps?
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PeterC4 I can see the Bank Apps being an issue. As to news, doesn't Twitter push most news to people if they subscribe to it? the Score is fairly broad, but mostly North American. Good points. Maybe time will solve some of these issues.
I'm not sure it's acceptable to say I'm going to use twitter to curate my own funnel for news just because my phone doesn't support many other options.
People want choice. I use BBC's push notifications because their sense of what is important enough to push matches mine nicely. For others it may be Bloomberg or ABC or something else. I like to stream TV shows from our TiVo, someone else may want the PS4 app, and the next person may be more interested in an app to rent a Zipcar.
If you walk into a grocery store you might say why does this store have so many aisles and so many products when my shopping list includes just 15 items. Well, you just have to look around at the other customers who are buying different items from their own lists.
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Very interesting responses. A little more on my perspective. I have worked with one of the lawyers who worked on the initial IPO for Research in Motion (RIM) now Blackberry and I can remember seeing my first device and wondering what he was doing. We were all in awe when we realized he was sending emails wirelessly. Soon, many business people adopted this device and when it was combined with a phone it was outstanding. We had dedicated servers and hundreds of thousands of professionals used this device. It was robust, easy to type, did the job and was secure. Over time it got better and I was, like many of my colleagues, a devout business user of Blackberry smart phones. My conditioning was, and up until now has been, that it was a business device. That is why the current Z30 seems like such a leap to me with most of the popular social media, major news feeds and stock market news available, a working browser, excellent battery life and an easy to use screen size. Now I see the dichotomy that exists - and maybe it's tilted. A certain amount of the users that influence these device sales use it for much broader uses and I suppose base their decision on what is important to them. So if your phone carries an App that lets follow the Romanian Water Polo Team....and that's your favourite team....then your bias is to the Romanian friendly phone. Reading a PDF document or an Excel spread sheet may be irrelevant.
I guess I can still see the market for Blackberry, that is primarily focused on business use - secure and robust business use. Maybe that's optimistic. But I would never tie up my phone or email device with anything other than a quick read of business news, a view of the markets, or a scan of my other email accounts. And many business users still like the dedicated keyboard. For the rest....I would use a portable tablet or some such thing. As to banking, hard to say if I would do that with my cell phone. Anyway, interesting responses. There will lots of corporations thinking about what happens with this next generation of phones.