Lots of noise this week in this sector. With Apple gaining 58% of the
Flash player market with the shuffle... What happens with those
comments from the competition about how "dissapointed" they were with
the shuffle and how the custumer wants a screen (and FM player and WMA
playback and all those other features they have pointlessly push for
years). Apple even said the supply was constrained (meaning the ramp up
in production was being outstripped by demand), so it could have been
more! Now we have the new iPod Killer (People seem to have realized the
PSP wasn't it) in the Nokia N91 phone. Is it a nice phone? You betcha!
Do I want one? Is the Pope Catholic? (the old one not the new one) Of
course, I do. Is it an iPod killer... No. Not by a long shot. Consumers
are used to separating music from the rest so convergence won't come
until it is cheap. The iPod is the best way to hear your music and has
an ecosystem that is hard to beat. A person paying 500$ for a phone
(and if the N91 costs less than that I'm going to be a very happy man),
wil pay 2 or 3 hundred for a proper iPod. It simply makes sense.
The New York Times has an interesting especial about wireless technology.
The stuff about celular phones, Voice ove IP, and Wi-Fi are very
interesting... Remember when this was something new you had to explain
to people? I do! The stuff about future technology is slightly less
interesting, since we really don't knwo what will happen... Will some
fast version of Wi-Fi beat 3G? Or will we start hearing about 4G before
3G gets implemented in some parts of the US?
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