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iPhones are just the smartphone market. More like SMS's are going away for smartphones but staying for everyone else. Not everyone has an smartphone and not eve

iPhones are just the smartphone market. More like SMS's are going away for smartphones but staying for everyone else. Not everyone has an smartphone and not everyone can afford a dataplan.

JacobAldridge 15y ago
Yet. (And in emerging markets, it may be 10 years, I get that, but ... yet.)
- nasmorn 15y ago
  The only people I call which don't have smartphones are my grandmother and my father in law. I got one friend with a blackberry and one with an Android Phone. Every other one has an iPhone. This includes friends of my wife, mom, dad, even my mother in law who is close to 70. Granted I am from Austria where cell plans with data are 15 dollars a month and which has the second highest iPhone penetration in the world. But usually what happens here moves to Germany 3 years down the line (in mobile phones only). SMS are virtually free anyway as we get 100s or 1000s included. The network is good and the companies still make money so I guess the carriers dont need to move anywhere if they are content to be a commodity business. They will need to sell some of the swanky shops they have on the streets and become a little more like my ISP.
chc 15y ago
I think you're taking a shorter view than the OP. Today's smartphones are 2020's "WHOA, you're still using that relic?"
- zitterbewegung 15y ago
  Most of the world still uses relics though.
  - chc 15y ago
    And today's smartphones (which have this technology) are tomorrow's relics. That's the OP's point. Right now it's just on the high end, but today's high end will be the low end in the not-too-distant future. My friends used to wish we could have those cool high-end camera phones — and now my mom's crappy relic has one, with a better camera to boot. You say, "Not everyone has a smartphone and not everyone has a data plan." But that's not the point. What people have isn't relevant — it's what they will have in 10–15 years.

iPhones are just the smartphone market. More like SMS's are going away for smartphones but staying for everyone else. Not everyone has an smartphone and not everyone can afford a dataplan.

JacobAldridge 15y ago

Yet. (And in emerging markets, it may be 10 years, I get that, but ... yet.)

nasmorn 15y ago
The only people I call which don't have smartphones are my grandmother and my father in law. I got one friend with a blackberry and one with an Android Phone. Every other one has an iPhone. This includes friends of my wife, mom, dad, even my mother in law who is close to 70. Granted I am from Austria where cell plans with data are 15 dollars a month and which has the second highest iPhone penetration in the world. But usually what happens here moves to Germany 3 years down the line (in mobile phones only). SMS are virtually free anyway as we get 100s or 1000s included. The network is good and the companies still make money so I guess the carriers dont need to move anywhere if they are content to be a commodity business. They will need to sell some of the swanky shops they have on the streets and become a little more like my ISP.

chc 15y ago

I think you're taking a shorter view than the OP. Today's smartphones are 2020's "WHOA, you're still using that relic?"

zitterbewegung 15y ago
Most of the world still uses relics though.
- chc 15y ago
  And today's smartphones (which have this technology) are tomorrow's relics. That's the OP's point. Right now it's just on the high end, but today's high end will be the low end in the not-too-distant future. My friends used to wish we could have those cool high-end camera phones — and now my mom's crappy relic has one, with a better camera to boot. You say, "Not everyone has a smartphone and not everyone has a data plan." But that's not the point. What people have isn't relevant — it's what they will have in 10–15 years.