Actually, they understand the concept - but current strategy is for
one of them to convince the greatest number of customers which church
they should attend, a la Beta vs VHS. The one with the most buyers can
wangle the most deal with the publishers and the others - and customers
who chose wrongly - are left out in limbo.
In truth, I think that may already have happened to webOS phones.
I love my Pre, don't really want anything else - at least not right now
- but a) all I see coming out for apps are iPhone and Android, and b)
there are plenty of updated models in the market for everyone except Pre
owners.
In Feb, I'm upgrade eligible and will be seriously looking for
something that will, for instance, run quickly, display my chosen
rotation of wallpaper pics, and have a decent keyboard for writing in
landscape mode. Unless something changes in the current recipe, my phone
by March will not be a Pre.
But that's what happens in free-for-all, every company
proprietarially for itself development environment. What's going to
frost my buns is if the Kindle/Amazon e-book model wins that competition.
On 8/20/2010 5:42 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> Don't these people get the idea of being customer friendly? They could
> put themselves out of business eventually.
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