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Originally Posted by PSM
Or it could flop horribly, I suppose. But Apple has already created a market where one didn't exist in portable music players, and they could do it again with phones.
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I don't think any of us even propose it will "flop" just that it won't be as huge as everyone thinks.
The iPod situation doesn't really count. That was literally an entirely new market with a void of a major player.
The phone market is very different. Like I said in an earlier post, Apple is more or less reacting to an existing market.
They will create a sub-market with the iPhone: high priced/high end almost luxury phones (can't wait to hear about the muggings here in NYC!
) but the idea that a $600 phone will become dominant, that I find hard to believe.
I have friends in their 20's who still don't have cameras on their phones or pay more than $50 for one, let alone wanting to watch videos or replace their current 30gb ipods. Even me with my dorky habit of the 6700, 700wx, 650 and Moto Q have not convinced many to get one.