A Visual Comparison of the Nokia and Apple Ranges of Phones
29th of June, 2008
This is why I’ve never cared about mobile phones and why I’m so excited about the iPhone.
A huge range of mediocre phones similar enough to make none of them exceptional and dissimilar enough to make the decision difficult. Like the entire range, it’s easy to choose a phone from Apple. All their engineering expertise is focused on developing and improving one device. As a consumer, you either want it or you don’t.
Dumbass Mactards and fashion lemmings would buy even a turd with the Apple logo, so of course one is enough.
Made by Sebhelyesfarku
Jealous much, Seb? Maybe someday when you get a job, you can afford an iPhone too.
Made by Poor Sebhelyesfarku
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Made by To Much Choice
Nokia has a typical General Motors lineup for all sorts of stumblebum users. Build a phone for each user profile and hope it will attract them enough to buy it. Every couple of months, come out with a new phone, a new color, a new shape. Do something to keep them interesting before the user just gets fed up and chucks the POS out the window or even worse, go to another handset company. Nokia must have like a dozen production lines churning out those handsets. Must be a parts logistics nightmare. I can understand five or so models, but Nokia’s lineup is way overboard.
The iPhone is more like the Koenigsegg made for the discerning user: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koenigsegg
One iPhone fits 90% of it’s users and the satisfaction rate is very high for most users. Lowered production costs for Apple using one production line and they can concentrate on giving the best experience to users of one model handset. I’m sure Apple will greatly expand it’s iPhone lineup to two models.
Who cares how many models Nokia makes. Probably fifty percent of Nokia’s high-end handset users will end up buying an iPhone in time. Those are the users Apple wants to grab, not those cheapster users that can only afford $35 handsets.
Made by Constable Odo
Defenders of Nokia just have to ask themselves these questions:
Can anyone name a Nokia phone other than one they are holding in their hands?
Has anyone ever used two Nokia phones with the same operating system?
Nokia has been working on phones for 15 years - have you EVER used a Nokia phone where you said, this is one great OS!
Are there any Nokia phones where you can access 20 features with one or two taps?
Have you ever stared at your Nokia phone trying to figure out how to access some feature because it’s not just there right on the front page available with ONE TAP?
That’s why Nokia (and Moto & Samsung & others) are getting their lunch handed them above the $99 market … they have been designing phones for 15 years AND above is the culmulative effort - fine phones IF you’re paying $29 or $49 - you’ll live with it but to pay real money? No. That’s their failure. They’ve spent 15 years designing okay phones because they set the bar at their own ankle level - at best, each phone offered ONE excellent feature because hey, their objective is to KEEP RE-SELLING you a new phone … (Apple could’ve had 3G in the phone last year if AT&T had bother to put up towers a year earlier - the technology was there, just not the towers).
THe bottom line is this. Nokia & others scatter features on a couple dozen phones in order that you keep switching and of course, to sell to those who cannot afford more than $0 or $29 for a phone. That’s why they tend to call them by numbers (obviously after RAZR & Apple, they are trying to change some of that) but Apple makes one phone that serves EVERYONE - it does cost more but then it does more - you decide if you want it. Nokia makes phones for the masses and budget phone buyers whether by choice or by income. Apple offers the best phone OS and the best hardware at a higher cost but it does more - you decide what you want. The iPhone is not for everyone - just for those willing to pay more for the best of class. It’s that simple.
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@ Sebhelyesfarku
What a thoughtful and intelligent post you made. That should have been the reply you would have gotten if you didn’t open the idiot box in your brain. Instead of writing a thoughtful, factual response in defending Nokia, you instead spouted of in full idiot mode. Thus embarrassing the brand Nokia. What company would love to have a person like you defending their product? Keep up the good work and I hope you continue to post all over the “internets” for as long as possible representing Nokia users.
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If Nokia is the General Motors of handsets, then that would make Motorola the General Mills of handsets.
Check this out: http://developer.motorola.com/products/handsets/?num=all
The iPhone is a new platform, not just another handset.
Made by Tony
Interesting observation. And also an interesting analogy drawn by Constable Odo.
Reminds me of The paradox of choice TED talk by Barry Schwartz.
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