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Computers Mobil / Cell Phones 5 Magic Answers for the iPhone App Store and Why It's So Good
| 5 Magic Answers for the iPhone App Store and Why It's So Good |
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| Written by Pierre Rebourg |
| Friday, 09 October 2009 07:41 |
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Can we explain why this is the case? Is it possible to analyze some of the decisions Apple made that put them in this place, ensuring their serious dominance when it comes to the 'best' smartphone (even if they don't have all the market share yet)? It seems like no one can pull off any reasonable level of competition so far (except for the great try that is the Palm Pre). Here are 5 specific reasons as to why this happened. #5: Planning ahead always works While some phone companies change their strategies on a yearly basis, and get heavily involved with mobile phone carriers who set the agenda for how phones are developed, Apple decided that it would be all about the unit itself, and its software. One unit, one OS, and no compromises -- and they stuck to it. #4: Developers, Developers, Developers! Since there is already an extremely healthy, motivated, and design-conscious community of developers out there doing work for OSX (and who have been working with macs for a long time), it means that apple's development kits are very good, and there are already a lot of people who know how to write great software. A lot of these people are now working on the iPhone, too. #3: No other OS comes close to that of the iPhone All they did was take the same path as with their desktops: control the hardware, and you can greatly increase the quality of the software. Since the iPhone OS doesn't have to run on hundreds of different phones (unlike Symbian or Windows CE), the operating system is automatically optimized for that hardware, and all the software is, too. This pushes the quality of the apps beyond anything else available. #2: Apple has turned being the underdog into a fine art A lot of people expected the iPhone to fail -- the mobile market was simply massive, they said, full of established players who wouldn't let Apple come in and do whatever they wanted. They continued to say this after the phone was released -- basically until the app store exploded. No one is saying it anymore. #1: When your standards are high up top, it trickles down When you've got a company kicking absolute ass when it comes to their hardware, software, and all the included apps, and insisting on some of the smallest, most design-conscious decisions that make a huge difference to the end-user, these same standards trickle down to the developers and make everything great. About the Author: AppStoreReviewer.com is the number one site for iPhone app reviews. From games, utilities and apps that can even help you with your finances - they have it all. Grab a totally unique version of this article from the Uber Article Directory Kindly provided by MoneyHunter.org You are welcome to use this article on your own website, if you include the link just before this text. |
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