It's the Keyboard
Hmm, not so many Iphone sales so far, just 146,000 and counting from Apple's latest sales results.
That number is far lower than what everybody has been bandying about at 500,000 and so on. Which sets me wondering, is it the AT&T glitches that are preventing mass adoption or it is something else, like maybe the lack of a keyboard.
If you compared the Iphone to the original Palm or Handspring, which died out after 1-2 years of hype and hoopla, the one thing that strikes me is the common lack of keyboard.Yeah sure the Treo got a keyboard and went on to win some market share.
Compare that with the blackberry, which always had a full fledged keyboard and got rapped for blackberryitis and crackberry ism's.
Or the Nokia Communicator/E90, the business community, professionals who have to stay in touch and email have to have keyboards, all the reviews thta i have read berate the Iphone on this one point, that you can't even type in a to-do list properly.
Unless there is an external attachment or a slidable keyboard on the Iphone, i guess it'll be useful to show off and watch pretty pictures. Not for Corporate use.
That number is far lower than what everybody has been bandying about at 500,000 and so on. Which sets me wondering, is it the AT&T glitches that are preventing mass adoption or it is something else, like maybe the lack of a keyboard.
If you compared the Iphone to the original Palm or Handspring, which died out after 1-2 years of hype and hoopla, the one thing that strikes me is the common lack of keyboard.Yeah sure the Treo got a keyboard and went on to win some market share.
Compare that with the blackberry, which always had a full fledged keyboard and got rapped for blackberryitis and crackberry ism's.
Or the Nokia Communicator/E90, the business community, professionals who have to stay in touch and email have to have keyboards, all the reviews thta i have read berate the Iphone on this one point, that you can't even type in a to-do list properly.
Unless there is an external attachment or a slidable keyboard on the Iphone, i guess it'll be useful to show off and watch pretty pictures. Not for Corporate use.
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