Yes... a small stake in a small segment - and I-phones have a very specific demographic - trending younger and upwardly mobile (which really means they think credit and cash are synonyms - ha). Such a demographic is attractive to be sure. It seems larger to us because as tech savvy early adapters with high income we tend to see a higher percentage of such gadgets in our immediate circle.
I would add that business (where a high percentage of smart phones live) has a stake in Blackberry - because they backstop it with server technology. That makes it pretty entrenched and hard to dislodge - not that Apple has ever done squat to try and attract corporate IT :) Google is going to make a dent on that side as well I think because of the high profile with server and ent development (enterprise... not the tree thingy). Mark A. Kruger, MCSE, CFG (402) 408-3733 ext 105 www.cfwebtools.com www.coldfusionmuse.com www.necfug.com -----Original Message----- From: Phillip Duba [mailto:phild...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 9:45 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: ColdFusion Builder Released! Not sure where you got that info, but according to this article from Gartner last month, http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1306513, the iPhone is only 14% of the overall Smartphone sales for last year. The Smartphone space itself is only a small percentage of all cell phone purchases it also says, Phil On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Scott Brady <dsbr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 8:19 AM, Casey Dougall > <ca...@uberwebsitesolutions.com> wrote: > > > > What about Developers? Is their something they could do about this? I > don't > > write flex or flash sites myself BUT for the growing community out > there... > > Isn't this something that could lead to a class action lawsuit against > > platforms that don't allow flash? From the Developer Community as a > whole? > > > > > > On what grounds? There's no legal right to have Flash on the iPhone. > Maybe you could argue anti-trust violations, but despite all the buzz > about the iPhone, it's still a relatively small percentage of the cell > phone market. Even in smartphones, it's (based on the last stats I can > find) 40%. Large? Yes. Enough to argue it's a monopoly? I doubt it. > Especially when there are plenty of choices in the market out there > (Android does support Flash). > > Even if there were grounds for a lawsuit and a law firm took the case > and even if the lawsuit was successful, these types of lawsuits take > years to get through the courts. During that time, it's possible Flash > would continue to lose support, so even a successful lawsuit could be > too late to save Flash (the Microsoft antitrust case couldn't save > Netscape). In the long run, I believe all that would be accomplished > would be a bunch of lawyers getting even richer. > > Scott > > -- > ----------------------------------------- > Scott Brady > http://www.scottbrady.net/ > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:332311 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
