“What’s going on in the crazy world of smartphones? Yes, Apple set the bar pretty high with the iPhone’s unique user interface. And, Apple continues to advance the state of the art with better and larger screens, higher resolution, faster graphics and CPUs, and an attractive industrial design,” Kate MacKenzie blogs for PixoBebo.
“New smartphones from Nokia, HTC, BlackBerry, and to a less extent, Samsung, have hardware and basic software that rivals Apple’s iPhone,” MacKenzie writes. “That’s ‘rivals,’ but does not advance the state of the art much. In other words, they’re gaining parity on hardware, and moving closer on software. Close is only good in hand grenades and horseshoes.”
MacKenzie writes, “Apple’s rivals continue to skate where the puck is, and not where it’s going to be. That seems to be Apple’s forte. While you can find many smartphones at lower price points than Apple’s iPhone 5, the prices are not sufficiently low to disrupt the leader. Apple marginalizes lower priced smartphones by keeping the iPhone 4S and 4 around at discounted prices, but with a similar user experience by installing the latest version of iOS.”
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