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Spiced ApplesTime to let out my technopagan geek
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You may have heard by now that Apple met their goal of ten million iPhones in 2008. Before the holiday season, which means the numbers are going to go higher. And they are now the number three cell phone provider. Well, MacDailyNews put together a great list of iPhone naysayers. The important thing is not the iPhone. The important thing is with the iPhone, the new Google Android spec, and even RIM's new attempt, the market is shifting and becoming more of what the customer demands. The cell phone carriers are losing their power to dictate (and RESTRICT) features. Even though I still consider the iPhone a flawed product (I want copy-paste, I want memos, and I WANT IT AVAILABLE IN MY AREA), it drop kicked the whole industry to where it should have been in the first place. Competition. Got to love it. It's growing too. Here's another great example. This upscale hotel has built in remote capabilities for the iPhone and the iPod touch. But the real telling bit was this sentence. The hotel chose a web app in order to avoid the Apple certification process and to make it available on other hot devices in the near future. Get that. Not just Apple, but other hot devices too. The free market brings choice, better products, and cheaper prices. 
Posted: Wed - October 22, 2008 at 02:53 PM
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