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Thursday, October 21, 2004
Will phones kill the iPod?
From the article:
"The days of a mobile phone that functions merely as a communications device capable of playing only off-key ringtone renditions are coming to an abrupt end.
A raft of new phones with souped-up storage, bright color screens and stereo-quality sound systems are hitting the market, mainly to compete with an array of PDAs that themselves double as a phone.
Together, these new gadgets have morphed into an entertainment device to challenge Apple's dominance in the MP3 player market, some analysts say."
My comment is that it's hard to compete with things that are free (well, kind of) and comes with much more functionality yet with a smaller form factor. iPods are not subsidised to the same degree and very soon there will be phones with multi-GB hard drives.
Yahoo! News - Is the Mobile Phone the Next iPod Killer?
"The days of a mobile phone that functions merely as a communications device capable of playing only off-key ringtone renditions are coming to an abrupt end.
A raft of new phones with souped-up storage, bright color screens and stereo-quality sound systems are hitting the market, mainly to compete with an array of PDAs that themselves double as a phone.
Together, these new gadgets have morphed into an entertainment device to challenge Apple's dominance in the MP3 player market, some analysts say."
My comment is that it's hard to compete with things that are free (well, kind of) and comes with much more functionality yet with a smaller form factor. iPods are not subsidised to the same degree and very soon there will be phones with multi-GB hard drives.
Yahoo! News - Is the Mobile Phone the Next iPod Killer?
