OMG!!! Storm Vs. iPhone and Who Really Cares?
The anwer to this question is… obviously everyone. With the Storm coming out at the end of this next week people (bloggers) are starting or continuing the “Will the Storm be the iPhone Killer?” discussion.
Even with myself being a BB user I do not believe that the Storm will “kill” the iPhone. Here is why.
Beauty
The iPhone is a beautiful peice of equipment. The designers payed very close attention to the style of this thing from the form factor all the way to the software. I myself have only played with an iPhone for a half an hour at most, but I will say that it is built with beauty and form in mind. The Storm really is just an “iPhone knockoff” there is really nothing at all original (except for maybe the spring) that make me say, “Wow!”
Ease
The iPhone is built for consumers in mind. It really is layed out very well and has almost no learning curve. The BlackBerry on the other hand has a rather large learning curve (no not BlackBerry Curve!) and is really meant for business people. Many options are buried 2-5 clicks deep and the interface is not that intuitive. I have seen the videos of the new Storm and all RIM did was add a more attractive theme;
almost eveything else is the same. This will not even touch the iPhone.
There is a lowercase “i” in front of it
The iPhone is an Apple product and because of their marketing power it is pretty much unstoppable. No one (or company) can come close to the “i” branding. Don’t get me wrong, I may be pretty much an Apple hater myself, but people flock to this stuff. I mean, people genuinely believe that the iPod is THE MP3 player, meaning iPod and MP3 player are the same thing. Apple has got it made.
So, in a nutshell the Storm will not be the messiah that saves us all from the iPhone takeover. And I do believe that no phone will ever take it’s place, except for maybe an iPhone 4G.
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