Tuesday, November 23, 2010

I do not need iPhone!!

iPhone is no big deal... (Just wanted to start the post like this, just to make it sound that iPhone is not as cool as it may have been presented to the market and also to capture your attention)

Apple always comes up with deliberate shortening in supply, just to play with the market sentiment and increase the demand for their product to a higher level. Am not arguing, anything on their quality deliverable. Its a marketing gimmick.
Example : If 100% is needed, Apple satisfies 90% that moment. Its then advertises / make known to people that the demand for Apple product X is on greater demand. This increases the demand for product X to a greater + greater demand. To a common user, having an Apple product X becomes cool...

For markets like India, China, Brazil, Argentina; iPhone is still expensive. Also you do not get the latest and the greatest ones as do you get at US / UK. Well, the necessity for iPhone here is also not great. People here (mostly) buy for necessity than for luxury and try to get more value for every penny they spend. Enterprise users, may still prefer to use Blackberry, as it is great in inputting more data rather than just outputting / reading data. (Opinions may differ. Iam not an expert).
Apple is very much close ended. It doesn't allow anyone to break in and come up with major customizations, unless you would be ready to pay them. (Android is a open OS!!!)

Its also weird that iPhone Apps certification procedure is not clear cut. The documents that you get googling to look into the certification procedure is vague (not sure whether it is deliberately made that way). Apple also puts a clause that, accepting or rejecting an app, is under sole discretion of Apple and they need not explain "why an app is rejected?".. (Well, Apple is a big guy, and I guess, they should have lot of people who can be assigned to this job, if their is not someone available already..). Their are also apps available that makes no sense at all.
1) Fat Burner V2.0 - Download this app, put it on top of your belly, work the app, the phone starts to vibrate and apparently is supposed to burn your fat.. :-o (Still Amazing is, it has Version 2.0 :-P)
2) Iam Rich - Just download this app for $1000, have it on your iPhone to show you are rich.. :-o (I guess Apple removed it off late)

Android is still more open... If the right vendor is available, Android mobile would be the right choice.. :-)

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