Garcian Smith on 06 June 2008
| FishyJoe said: The smart phones prior to the iPhone were pretty terrible. The success of the iPhone is pretty much an indictment of how bad the competition was. Palm, MS, Nokia, etc have done a very bad job of making a user friendly phone that appeals to a broad audience. Much like the iPod, Apple took advantage of the competition's weakness with the iPhone. I'm not seeing that same weakness with the DS. The DS is very user friendly and appeals to a broad audience. |
And on top of that, the iPhone hasn't even captured the entire market as the iPod did. As I mentioned before, iPhone sales are only 20% or so of total smartphone sales on a month-by-month basis, mostly due to high cost and the even MORE expensive monthly fees.
"'Casual games' are something the 'Game Industry' invented to explain away the Wii success instead of actually listening or looking at what Nintendo did. There is no 'casual strategy' from Nintendo. 'Accessible strategy', yes, but ‘casual gamers’ is just the 'Game Industry''s polite way of saying what they feel: 'retarded gamers'."
-Sean Malstrom
