Apple's iPhone Outsells All Other Smartphones in July

[RZetlin]

Is Steven Balmer still laughing at the iPhone?

 

[cameronjpu]

It is good to hear this. I am pretty sure Apple has probably already sold 1 million iPhones. They seem well ahead of the seemingly low goal they set for 1 million sold by the end of the quarter. I still fear that a new iPod Touch could have huge impact on iPhone sales, causing them to drop significantly since many people seem to buy the phone for the iPod.

I've heard this sentiment a few times and I don't get it. Do you really believe that people are out there paying $600 and $60 per month to get an iPod? I would LOVE to hear about a single person who uses it that way.

 

[cameronjpu]

but....
by definition a smartphone is one which can have applications added to it. The iPhone isnt a smartphone... most every phone these days has a web browser, email, etc... though it is terrible. The iphone is the best non smart phone out there, but it isnt a smartphone

That may or may not be the definition of a smartphone, but the fact is that "real people" have no care or concern for that. To a "real person" a smartphone is a phone that looks and works like a BB, a Palm, etc. You can define it how you like, but the 99.9% of the world that does not look up the definition for the word assumes that the iPhone is a smartphone.

 

[cameronjpu]

So it's missing one feature found on most other smartphones, so you completely take it out of the smartphone category and put it in the "more fully-featured phone" category, completely ignoring the smartphone features that it does have?

How about the fact that the iPhone has smartphone features that no other smartphone has? Like integrated youtube and safari? No other smartphone has an integrated iPod. How do all those other "not as smart" phones make it into the smartphone category when they are missing all those smartphone features?

Geesh! Such geeks....

 

[cameronjpu]

Wikipedia

What's with quoting wikipedia anyway? We do all know that wikipedia is edited by potentially the very same people who post on this board, right? What wikipedia's definition is depends on the most recent update and what their moderators determine to allow. It's not some definitive source of information just because the last 5 letters are pedia, eh?

 

[DaftUnion]

I'll be curious to see how many iPhones Apple will sell by the end of the year.

 

[rjstanford]

My wife lost her RAZR, and we got a free Nokia 6026. It isn't a bad phone, but it makes me realize how nice the iPhone really is. (We're waiting to see if a smaller iPhone comes out to get her one)

Of course, the RAZR and the iPhone are almost exactly the same size, even though the iPhone does look significantly larger - and its hard to see how they could make it any smaller without compromising both web browsing and their suite of applets (which would now have to be resolution-aware when they can currently make full use of the known screen real-estate, as can all of the iPhone-specific websites out there).