Cell Phones vs iPod
I want to tell my opinions in this blog, not just post about phones and software.
Everybody knows, even if they admit or not, that the main and only player in the portable music industry is the Apple's iPod. And direct competitors have absolutely no change against such a market monopoly. For example, I am a big Symbian fan, I know that I can play music on it, but I still always carry on my neck a iPod Shuffle for listening to music. The iPod is just to good to have an alternative to it. The excellent sound, autonomy, and iTunes integration make it the best in business.
But the situation may change. New Symbian Phones ( Nokia 6680 ( article ), and 6681/6682 ( article ) ) come with pretty good stereo MP3 playback. And the 3G/EDGE becomes slowly a standard for mobile networks data transfer. This can be the background of a future big business because mobile carriers can distribute music directly to mobile devices, which can give them a good advantage over the cable-only iPod. All this idea needs for success are some cheaper mobile phones that can support high quality music playback and some decent rates for getting the music. This can make me adopt the mobile for music playback.
But unfortunately now the situation is a bit different, at least here in Europe. The 3G networks are just at the begging, the music playback in Symbian Phones is absent or very bad. You can only find decent music playback in 500$+ phones. In this way you can't compete with iPod. Even the new Nseries ( N70 ( article ), N90 ( article ), N91 (article) ) phones does not change the situation too much.
Everybody knows, even if they admit or not, that the main and only player in the portable music industry is the Apple's iPod. And direct competitors have absolutely no change against such a market monopoly. For example, I am a big Symbian fan, I know that I can play music on it, but I still always carry on my neck a iPod Shuffle for listening to music. The iPod is just to good to have an alternative to it. The excellent sound, autonomy, and iTunes integration make it the best in business.
But the situation may change. New Symbian Phones ( Nokia 6680 ( article ), and 6681/6682 ( article ) ) come with pretty good stereo MP3 playback. And the 3G/EDGE becomes slowly a standard for mobile networks data transfer. This can be the background of a future big business because mobile carriers can distribute music directly to mobile devices, which can give them a good advantage over the cable-only iPod. All this idea needs for success are some cheaper mobile phones that can support high quality music playback and some decent rates for getting the music. This can make me adopt the mobile for music playback.
But unfortunately now the situation is a bit different, at least here in Europe. The 3G networks are just at the begging, the music playback in Symbian Phones is absent or very bad. You can only find decent music playback in 500$+ phones. In this way you can't compete with iPod. Even the new Nseries ( N70 ( article ), N90 ( article ), N91 (article) ) phones does not change the situation too much.
posted by Mihai @ 1:28 PM
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