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"Market leader adds features in response to and inspired by features their smaller, more nimble competitors ship with." It's kind of the way of the world.
by mrkurt 17y ago
"Market leader adds features in response to and inspired by features their smaller, more nimble competitors ship with."
It's kind of the way of the world.
- absconditus 17y agoWho are the smaller and more nimble competitors?
- mrkurt 17y agoPalm, HTC, Android (Google's huge, Android's not).
- kemiller 17y agoRight, those features totally never occurred to them before Palm and Google did them. Multitasking? Ads? WALLPAPERS! Where DO they come up with these amazing ideas?
- mrkurt 17y agoAre we doing feature based checklists now, or comparing good implementations? Multitasking on a small device is largely a UI problem, and it sounds like Apple solved it almost like Palm did. You don't think they do research on what's out there, see how other people have solved problems, and adapt those solutions to what they're trying to do?
- kemiller 17y agoI suspect Apple had a roadmap for all of these long before WebOS or Android came out. Could the final form have been influenced by those? Unknowable from outside. I'm not sure in what way you think this looks like Palm's solution.
- davidw 17y agoApple is probably the market leader in smart phones in the US. But Nokia, as far as I know, is still the market leader in mobile phones, and have a good share of the smart phone market in other places, like Europe, that have been doing more with mobile phones longer than in the US.