So we’ve seen the Bold, seen that it will be in the same AT&T stable as the iPhone and at roughly the same price. Brian Caulfield, over at Forbes wrote a post today on “why Apple can’t kill the blackberry.” In his post, Brian goes over the reason RIM is still in the fight is its back-end support. His argument is the corporate folks need the infrastructure. Brian misses it too.
What they miss is the internet. More and more as corporations rely on global data, what goes on in Myanmar (you might remember it as Burma) affects us all today. From stock prices to weather reports to even data the exists only on the web; businesses are becoming web addicted. That is the killer app in the iphone: the internet.
Surely, Apple isn’t the first to bring this to consumers. But they did it in the first way that is actually tolerable, if not fun. Surfing the web on my ipod touch is fun. The big screen and intelligent zooming is above all else usable.
The web on Blackberries, Palm, and the slew of WinMo devices doesn’t even come close and largely it has to do with screen real estate. Maybe I’ve missed it but for me, the killer app is the internet and integrating maps, movies, music and all that great Apple Kool-Aid seems to be not just where Apple is headed, but where the industry needs to focus.
Maybe all we need is a good flip phone…nah. Anyone seen the Thunder? Perhaps they’ve got an idea on what is missing?
Read [Forbes]
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