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Originally Posted by #5
Not necessarily true. The market never demanded a snappy interface. The market was driven by high technological features. iPhone is the first handset device to make the gui a market driver. Now that it is a market driver, the competition will react.
I don't think you should make a business case about Apple's GUI as being a market driver because Apple owns very little market share in the pc industry. Where you should make the business case in a pc environment is in the e commerce sector. There is serious competition between online retailers and the user interface is a key value driver. There have been several cases where companies see remarkable online sales increases after they upgrade their user interface.
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I'm not saying that the GUI is a "market driver"--simply that it won't be so simple for the other cell phone makers to copy it, as no one on the computer side of things has been able to so far.
And BTW. . .what makes you think that the market didn't demand a better GUI? That's like saying the market didn't demand a better mp3 player until the iPod. People don't know what's possible until some company produces a better device.
Now we'll see what happens.