Comments on: Special ThoughtPiece: Zen and the Art of the Pearl http://www.blackberrycool.com/2006/09/07/special-thoughtpiece-zen-and-the-art-of-the-pearl/ The voice of the BlackBerry community. Wed, 22 May 2013 22:04:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: L. M. Lloyd http://www.blackberrycool.com/2006/09/07/special-thoughtpiece-zen-and-the-art-of-the-pearl/comment-page-1/#comment-45316 L. M. Lloyd Fri, 08 Sep 2006 09:57:39 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/2006/09/07/002254/#comment-45316 You know, I really can’t understand the fascination people have with the iPod as some high water mark of design. The article says that the Pearl is the iPod of smartphones. Let us hope that RIM is aiming a little higher than that. I mean, the iPod seems quite well liked by those who own them, but it is hardly the most advanced, or even successful device ever made.

I would really hope that the person who wrote this article would realize how small the iPod’s market is compared to the mobile phone market. By the same token one would hope that RIM is aiming more for the RAZR of smartphones, than the iPod of smartphones.

Just something to think about, from Q4 of 2004 to Q1 of 2006, Motorola sold 50 million RAZRs. That is 50 million in 18 months. If you count all on Motorola’s other phones, they are selling about 50 million phones a quarter. Nokia is selling something like 75 million phones a quarter. On the other hand from its launch in Q4 of 2001 to today, all lines of the iPod combined have sold fewer than 60 million units! Hardly a run-away success in terms of the mobile phone market.

Aside from the praise fawned on it by the relatively small number of users who have iPods, I really don’t see any indication that it is some holy grail of technology that everything electronic should be measured by. If anything, it would seem that Phone manufacturers have a thing or two to teach Apple about what constitutes a design that people really want.

]]> By: L. M. Lloyd http://www.blackberrycool.com/2006/09/07/special-thoughtpiece-zen-and-the-art-of-the-pearl/comment-page-1/#comment-483463 L. M. Lloyd Fri, 08 Sep 2006 09:57:00 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/2006/09/07/002254/#comment-483463 You know, I really can’t understand the fascination people have with the iPod as some high water mark of design. The article says that the Pearl is the iPod of smartphones. Let us hope that RIM is aiming a little higher than that. I mean, the iPod seems quite well liked by those who own them, but it is hardly the most advanced, or even successful device ever made.

I would really hope that the person who wrote this article would realize how small the iPod’s market is compared to the mobile phone market. By the same token one would hope that RIM is aiming more for the RAZR of smartphones, than the iPod of smartphones.

Just something to think about, from Q4 of 2004 to Q1 of 2006, Motorola sold 50 million RAZRs. That is 50 million in 18 months. If you count all on Motorola’s other phones, they are selling about 50 million phones a quarter. Nokia is selling something like 75 million phones a quarter. On the other hand from its launch in Q4 of 2001 to today, all lines of the iPod combined have sold fewer than 60 million units! Hardly a run-away success in terms of the mobile phone market.

Aside from the praise fawned on it by the relatively small number of users who have iPods, I really don’t see any indication that it is some holy grail of technology that everything electronic should be measured by. If anything, it would seem that Phone manufacturers have a thing or two to teach Apple about what constitutes a design that people really want.

]]> By: L. M. Lloyd http://www.blackberrycool.com/2006/09/07/special-thoughtpiece-zen-and-the-art-of-the-pearl/comment-page-1/#comment-483464 L. M. Lloyd Fri, 08 Sep 2006 09:57:00 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/2006/09/07/002254/#comment-483464 You know, I really can’t understand the fascination people have with the iPod as some high water mark of design. The article says that the Pearl is the iPod of smartphones. Let us hope that RIM is aiming a little higher than that. I mean, the iPod seems quite well liked by those who own them, but it is hardly the most advanced, or even successful device ever made.

I would really hope that the person who wrote this article would realize how small the iPod’s market is compared to the mobile phone market. By the same token one would hope that RIM is aiming more for the RAZR of smartphones, than the iPod of smartphones.

Just something to think about, from Q4 of 2004 to Q1 of 2006, Motorola sold 50 million RAZRs. That is 50 million in 18 months. If you count all on Motorola’s other phones, they are selling about 50 million phones a quarter. Nokia is selling something like 75 million phones a quarter. On the other hand from its launch in Q4 of 2001 to today, all lines of the iPod combined have sold fewer than 60 million units! Hardly a run-away success in terms of the mobile phone market.

Aside from the praise fawned on it by the relatively small number of users who have iPods, I really don’t see any indication that it is some holy grail of technology that everything electronic should be measured by. If anything, it would seem that Phone manufacturers have a thing or two to teach Apple about what constitutes a design that people really want.

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