Vodafone's CEO back to loving the iPhone experience, Apple leads way among too many mobile operating systems
Oh look, Arun Sarin seems to like the iPhone again, after telling the Financial Times that the device offers users ""a pretty poor experience".
Sarin believes that there are too many mobile phone operating systems out there, and that's making it harder to develop mobile software applications.
"Apple has raised the bar with the iPhone, and we all now know how important user interfaces are," he said, saying that the industry needed to raise its game to provide UIs that customers were now getting used to.
That's all very well, but haven't we been saying that since the iPhone launched? Granted, there are some pretty cool new phones with decent interfaces coming to market now, but it's still fairly disparate.
I'm not convinced that's going to change much. I can't see any major player letting their mobile OS die, and now we have additional, open source systems — Android and LiMo — entering the equation, it's just going to get more cluttered.
Added to which, great though the iPhone is, it's currently just one phone (OK, two models). Apple is never going to compete in overall market share with the myriad of other handsets available, nor is the mobile version of OS X going to compete with the likes of Symbian and Windows Mobile anytime soon.
(Via iPhone, Therefore I Blog)
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