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The problem is that an Android phone is a commodity. All phones are commodities. Going with Windows Phone just meant that they were a commodity with an incomp
by AndrewDucker 13y ago
The problem is that an Android phone is a commodity.
All phones are commodities. Going with Windows Phone just meant that they were a commodity with an incompatible OS.
- JVIDEL 13y agoExactly, smartphones were relatively rare before 2005 or so, but even before the iphone there were a lot of people with symbian, BBs and treos, and now dumbphones are mostly of the disposable kind.
- at-fates-hands 13y ago>>>> Exactly, smartphones were relatively rare before 2005 Actually DoComo pretty much made the smartphone what it is today. Japan was selling "smartphones" way back in 2001. It was the incredible revenues they generated that got the attention of US carriers. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/1835821.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/1835821.stm
- JVIDEL 13y agoThat's one country, out of the entire world. Smartphones were less rare in Europe before 2005, but still there.
- PuercoPop 13y agoYou are misunderstanding his use of the word commodity and hence his point. He is using commodity in the sense that to satisfy the demand of the item the manufacturer is irrelevant to the buyer. Clearly not all phones as commodities. An iPhone is not the same as a Chinese knockoff.
- jussij 13y agoThe Op is using commodity in the sense that wood is a commodity. Now anyone can grow wood, but the big money is turning that wood into furniture and that takes a skilled carpenter.