Chris Howard

At our sister site Apple Matters, Chris Howard has an interesting piece up on the fate of the iPhone. Specifically Chris is wondering if the iPhone’s lack of features will doom the device. After hearing the doom sayers wondering where some particular feature Chris concludes they have it wrong.  From the article:

Looking at more recent history, we can look at the iPod. Didn’t you just get so sick of the stories predicting its inevitable doom because it didn’t have features, such as FM radio? And every time a new media player came out that had any of those feature it was touted as an iPod killer. And yet they all failed and the iPod is still the marketshare and mindshare leader by a street. Clearly it’s not all about features.

He’s got that right! Check out the full piece.

Chris Howard isn’t afraid to bash Apple when something is screwed up. But he’s also not above praising the company when something exceeds his expectations. Right now Chris Howard is very pleased with the iPhone. IF you’re wondering why it is a sordid tale of servers being overwhelmed, bandwidth caps and iTunes locking up. You can read the whole story at out sister site: Apple Matters. But a link isn’t enough, I mean the energy expended clicking a link… Too much to ask! Here’s an excerpt:

Now lazy programmers would have simply restored the last known OS, but Apple obviously weren’t lazy, and coded to detect the new OS waiting and used it. Well done, Apple.

Of course, there were no apps on my iPhone (besides the Apple ones), so I was still a bit nervous. But then a sync kicked off and it indicated it was installing my apps. I think at this point I stopped holding my breath.

Well it isn’t all sunshine and flowers. Chris, like the rest of the iPhone world is wondering where copy and paste is. Keep… more...

Apple Matter’s very own Chris Howard has an article up wondering if the iPhone’s momentum can be stopped (answer=yes but it won’t btw). Chris has a huge list of recent positive iPhone head lines and then gives specific examples of where the iPhone’s popularity is really helping to drive the iPhone ahead of the competition. As Chris aptly puts it:

Because in Q4, when folks are buying a new phone, they’ll feel the weight of that momentum pushing, pushing them to buy the most popular phone, the one that “everybody” has. And then they buy it, tell their friemds, get added to that quarter’s statistics, and the momentum builds more

The iPhone has, in a sense, created its own halo effect. The more it sells, the more it sells.

Read the whole article, it is worth your time.