QUOTE(ahtiven @ Jun 8 2010, 11:24 PM)
well said mate. well i would like to share my fair views on iphone/apple. let's look at the newly announced iphone4g that rocked the internet, i think you missed one important point though.. which IS the main key selling point that drives the overwhelming sales all over the world for the past few years until now.
it's the ability to show off. iphone, or rather Apple, carries a premium price tag for their products, and it is common thinking for people to associate premium price = showing off. certainly not all, though. personally i think we can categorize them into several different categories of buyers; early tech enthusiast adopters, fanboys, or even rich people who just want to get everything latest; from their latest season LV belt, luxury sports car to iphone4g.
there are also people who don't care what it can do or what it can't do, plus the avant-garde designs of Apple products which mostly attract people especially from creative industry; where most beautiful women and men ranging from models, advertisement firms to fashion designers can be found in this industry; they need the iphone4g to compliment them; (cant deny the exterior design is really superb.. glass, aluminium, ips tft etc) they certainly do not want to be labeled as geeky carrying n900 and android around, do they? just like how people categorize blackberry users as boring businessmen.
and you can't just generalize all uncle and aunties as technology illiterate lah lol.
Agreed! The branding and ability to show off is another Major key point. Its like the IN thing or must have famous device.
Anyway, I didn't generalize la, where can generalize, what I mean is those uncles, construction workers I know and met during the prayers are not technology literate.
QUOTE(eluna @ Jun 8 2010, 11:28 PM)
apple could get alot app because apple sdk very userfriendly and easy to apply compare to maemo5. my company do wrote for iphone, andriod will be second (for fun/marketing purpose).
Not entirely true. Its probably your company acquire the right resources, libraries and stuffs. iPhone has strict control and checking compared with others and the good thing is they ensure that the apps is built properly according to their specifications, there's no extras devel or testing app for end users, the app mus be stable and properly built. The reason Apple got lotsa app is because there're man users, and when you own an Apple, and when you register iTunes, everything involes $$$. Purchasig app is so very the easy, just a touch of a button it can charge directly to your credit card with no delays as they acquired your security code as well. Now tell me, who doesn't want to develop app for iPhone? I would love to develop for iPhone if you ask me to choose which platform I would choose to develop.
For symbian, windows mobile, its also very easy, for Symbian Nokia provided SDK for it since long ago. Plus Symbian OS is not strict as iPhone OS.
As for Maemo, its even better, there're so many language to choose from, and Qt is supported from the very start. Better yet, many Linux app can be ported, as example aMSN, Chromium, OpenDune, Stratagus, Theme Hospital, etc.
Anyway, the app/fame market is leaning more towards iPhone due to there is more market, users which pays for it, etc. Many games developed can actually be ported/rebuilt/etc for another platform if they want to.
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