Moritz reports, “Since Apple crashed the party two years ago with the touchscreen iPhone, it seems like all the consumer electronics outfits have been itching to give smartphones a try. ‘After the iPhone’s success, people got Apple envy,’ says Nielsen IAG research analyst Roger Entner.”
“However, the upstarts and PC titans are at a disadvantage to such dominant players as Nokia, Research In Motion and Apple, who not only have the gadgets, but also have the software on which they run,” Moritz reports.
“This is a high hurdle for a hardware shop like Dell, which has to develop phones around some other supplier’s software. But Dell’s core PC business is under attack, and it needs to find a plan,” Moritz reports. “‘It’s out of desperation,’ says Collins Stewart analyst Ashok Kumar, referring to the crushing battle Dell is engaged in on the PC front. ‘They don’t have a song and a prayer against Apple,’ at the high end of the computer market. ‘And they are getting a full frontal assault from Hewlett-Packard.'”
Moritz reports, “But still, the player with the most to lose appears to be Microsoft, and its Windows Mobile operating system.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Michael S.” for the heads up.]
