What makes iphone so successful?
- Blackberry marketed the hell out of the Z10. The biggest problem is that they released BB10 way too late. No amount of marketing was going to get people to buy a Blackberry. The name was already far too tarnished. Not to mention that 10.0 was beta software at best. All of the marketing in the whole world isn't going to sell a product that offered no reason for anyone to buy it.10-17-16 01:09 PMLike 0
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Companies wanted to write apps for it because of the potential of what it could do. The public wanted to buy it because it made everything else look obsolete. The halo effect from those years still carries over despite their technology gap with their competitors having closed.10-17-16 01:11 PMLike 4 - Marketing is what you say when you don't want to admit that a product is actually better. At this point, iPhone users are into their third or more devices. Is that really marketing? What's the difference between thinking you want something and wanting it? Eventually, there will be about two dozen guys left on CrackBerry who think that everyone else has been fooled by marketing.
I guess it makes some folks feel better to believe that iPhone users are simply dumb sheep that've been brainwashed by splashy marketing campaigns, rather than admit to themselves that someone could choose an iPhone(or something other than a BlackBerry, let's be honest,) on its merits.10-17-16 01:18 PMLike 9 - The BB users I know that abandoned the platform for the iPhone did so because of the simplicity and the rep of Apple. They don't trust Android and because most of them just love the hardware. Those few that went to the Android side (again, only those that were BB users) did so only because of price and they are super users that look for the latest specs.10-17-16 01:21 PMLike 0
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- The BB users I know that abandoned the platform for the iPhone did so because of the simplicity and the rep of Apple. They don't trust Android and because most of them just love the hardware. Those few that went to the Android side (again, only those that were BB users) did so only because of price and they are super users that look for the latest specs.10-17-16 01:37 PMLike 0
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No me neither.10-17-16 01:39 PMLike 3 - Marketing is what you say when you don't want to admit that a product is actually better. At this point, iPhone users are into their third or more devices. Is that really marketing? What's the difference between thinking you want something and wanting it? Eventually, there will be about two dozen guys left on CrackBerry who think that everyone else has been fooled by marketing.10-17-16 01:41 PMLike 0
- They created the first commercially available 64-bit processor for a smartphone that allows access to more RAM and faster, increased number of calculations. They have pushed GPU uses to complement the CPU in ways beyond traditional uses. Both of these have had significant impact on the industry as a whole. Their chip group has also created specialized Mx and Wx chips that offload functions from the main CPU as well as allowing increased functionality. These are all just processors on paper but would you truly not call them innovative in their use?Dunt Dunt Dunt and kirson like this.10-17-16 01:45 PMLike 2
- They created the first commercially available 64-bit processor for a smartphone that allows access to more RAM and faster, increased number of calculations. They have pushed GPU uses to complement the CPU in ways beyond traditional uses. Both of these have had significant impact on the industry as a whole. Their chip group has also created specialized Mx and Wx chips that offload functions from the main CPU as well as allowing increased functionality. These are all just processors on paper but would you truly not call them innovative in their use?10-17-16 01:51 PMLike 0
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- I wouldn't say innovative, simply because 64bit chips for computers have been around for awhile. Although we are talking cell phones, so taking something that exists already, and making it smaller to do another job, sounds more like "technical evolution". Is that a word?10-17-16 02:07 PMLike 0
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- There's some truth to what a lot of people are saying in here regarding the iPhone. Advertising? Sure. But all the advertising in the world isn't going to make people continually purchase a phone. People need to accept that Apple makes a quality product that works extremely well.
Both iOS and Android have advantages and disvantages, and when that happens, different products will suit different users10-17-16 02:12 PMLike 0 - I was going to bring up the same thing. Enzo Ferrari, Ferdinand Porsche, Colin Chapman and Elon Musk have apparently wasted a lot of time.
I wonder if the current crop of Formula 1 teams cry themselves to bed at night when they realize all their cars do is go around a race track. Just like cars did 100 years ago, right? No innovation in F1 at all.10-17-16 02:14 PMLike 3 - I wouldn't say innovative, simply because 64bit chips for computers have been around for awhile. Although we are talking cell phones, so taking something that exists already, and making it smaller to do another job, sounds more like "technical evolution". Is that a word?DJ BigToe likes this.10-17-16 02:15 PMLike 1
- I was going to bring up the same thing. Enzo Ferrari, Ferdinand Porsche, Colin Chapman and Elon Musk have apparently wasted a lot of time.
I wonder if the current crop of Formula 1 teams cry themselves to bed at night when they realize all their cars do is go around a race track. Just like cars did 100 years ago, right?10-17-16 02:17 PMLike 3 - See the problem is, in a way they didn't. Maybe in the PHONE business, BlackBerry had an edge. But general computer hardware, consumer interfaces.... Apple had the edge. And that might be the real issue, BlackBerry's focus wasn't on the consumer or the usage of the phones. It was on the hardware and the business need for security.
All Apple really did was merge their popular media player, the iPod with a phone. Becuase of the limits of the market back then and cost of data... App were a better solution than searching and browsing the internet. And we already knew that, as we BlackBerry users were using apps. Just not to the level that Apple allowed nor with the refinement that they were able to achieve in a short period of time.
So I don't really think that BlackBerry had some huge advantage over Apple... other than userbase for a short while.10-17-16 02:19 PMLike 0 - im starting to think it's really as simple an answer as .... a combination of steve jobs and those morons running blackberry back in 2007...for nothing more than excellent decision making on apple's part, and extremely poor decision making on blackberry's part... say what you will...
imagine steve was ceo of blackberry in 2007 and lazariduz and whats his face were ceos of apple
sometimes the simplest answer is the truth...oldtimeBBaddict likes this.10-17-16 02:25 PMLike 1 -
- im starting to think it's really as simple an answer as .... a combination of steve jobs and those morons running blackberry back in 2007...for nothing more than excellent decision making on apple's part, and extremely poor decision making on blackberry's part... say what you will...
imagine steve was ceo of blackberry in 2007 and lazariduz and whats his face were ceos of apple
sometimes the simplest answer is the truth...
There were touch phones by htc at that time. Had only bb recognized the opportunity at the right time and packaged the touch screen with their worked up os, they wud be selling like hot cakes.
BUT bb was drunk with success & took the customer for granted.Esgetn2hoT likes this.10-17-16 02:35 PMLike 1 - Blackberry had the opportunity.
There were touch phones by htc at that time. Had only bb recognized the opportunity at the right time and packaged the touch screen with their worked up os, they wud be selling like hot cakes.
BUT bb was drunk with success & took the customer for granted.
Maybe they were too arrogant or drunk with power... maybe not.... but from everything I've seen ... I just don't think their ambitions or intentions from the start were the same as Jobs'. I think they started a company with a particular intent in mind, and it evolved into something bigger than they ever thought.... whereas with Jobs... he knew exactly what he wanted from the start, and had a clear vision/extremely powerful drive/discipline to get there...
history reflects this clearly... i tip my hat to both groups as companies... but i do think it is clearly evident where blackberry faltered, and where apple capitalized.blackmass and oldtimeBBaddict like this.10-17-16 02:42 PMLike 2 - My dad told me once, the big secret to being successful in business:
Make a product that people want. And sell it at a price that people are willing to pay.10-17-16 02:56 PMLike 6 - Blackberry had the opportunity.
There were touch phones by htc at that time. Had only bb recognized the opportunity at the right time and packaged the touch screen with their worked up os, they wud be selling like hot cakes.
BUT bb was drunk with success & took the customer for granted.
Which is where BBRY went wrong - they had a product that a group wanted (keyboard and security) but as the market changed got stuck in this loop until it was too later of providing something the market no longer wanted (in any volume).10-17-16 03:01 PMLike 0
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