ReBlog – Sony to Apple: ‘Thank You sir, May I Have Another?’
‘Sony Corp is considering developing a cellphone-game gear hybrid in a bid to better compete with Apple Inc’s highly popular iPod and iPhone, the Nikkei business daily said on Saturday.’
That Sony is only now “considering” this epitomizes everything that’s wrong with them. They’ve been making both cell phones and handheld video game systems for years, and yet it didn’t occur to them to fuse the two until after the iPhone became a smash hit. It’s as though they learned nothing after watching the iPod kill the Walkman. – from daringfireball.net
This topic has probably been harped on at least three occasions on this blog in some form or antoher, but I gotta agree with John Gruber’s comments in the quote above. Now I may be in a different frame of mind versus the ultimate point Gruber is making, but I and any other casually observant tech and Apple enthusiast should have noticed is how a number of companies are now trying to create the iPhone killer. I’m confident that one will, maybe the Palm Pre; only time will tell. However, I think it would be wise for them to stop trying to kill the iPhone and think “innovation” or “revolution”, not that some of them aren’t, however.
What I’m getting at is while they’re focused on killing the iPhone, Apple probably has a new trick up it’s sleeve–or at least that’s been the trend. The Macintosh, the iPod, and the iPhone came out of nowhere and blew away the world. Why? Secrecy. Apple is good at it and these other companies ought to try doing the same. Yes, granted info is constantly leaking about new toys or tweaks to existing shiny Apple stuff. But still, Apple holds it’s tongue and doesn’t announce how it will flip the script, so to speak, on it’s competitors. Finally, when one recalls the year-to-year launches of a new iPhone since 2007, we may end up seeing something altogether new in the next year called the iKiller from Apple that says, “Here’s Johnny” when it boots. You just never know. I could be all wrong about this, but I’m just sayin’.
