iPhone 3G

The iPhone 3G has finally been announced. The most important new feature is 3G data access which works at Wifi speeds according to Apple. This is the start of a new smartphone era and is as significant an event as the release of the IBM PC. In another 5 years of time I expect there to to be over 100 million Apple like smart phones in use over the world. The most important attribute of the iPhone that most people don't understand is that most of its features get used. There are a lot of other smartphones in the market which claim to have most of the features that the Apple iPhone has, but most people are using only 10% of their features.

The only serious competition I see for Apple is from Google Android as Google is also trying to build a touch based mobile OS based on Linux and Google has engineers who have a deep understanding of Linux.

Apple devoted a third of times during the iPhone 3G presentation to third party apps. Apple also has reduced the price of the iPhone 3G to $199, this indicates that Apple is more focussed on getting market share and setting up the iPhone as a major development paltform than in maximizing profits. Since the iPhone shares the same software platform as the Mac OS X it effectively increases the Mac OS X installed base and could make it as big as Microsoft Windows.

Seven overlooked iPhone 3G Details

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