25th
iPhone = Model T?
This video got me to thinking.
I’m presently reading a biography on Henry Ford, I’ve been reading it since June I think, but that’s another story. Henry Ford developed the Model T - which opened up automobiles to the masses. It paved the way for streets and stoplights and drive-ins and shopping malls and laws geared towards automotive safety, etc. The Model T changed the world and became ubiquitous in the early part of the 19th century. 3 out of every 4 cars on the road was a Ford Model T up until Ford quit production in the mid 1920s. The reason that the Model T, the most successful car ever built, was taken out of production was that the competition, mainly Chevrolet, upped the ante. Chevrolet introduced the payment plan, buying a car on installments, introduced model years with yearly design changes and engineering improvements. However, the Model T pretty much retained the same design and engineering that it had in it’s first year of production thru the end of production 19 years later when introduced the Model A. Ford never regained it’s position as the world leader in automotive production.
I see this happening in the relatively new smartphhone market. The iPhone has taken the smartphhone market to a new level, introducing ease of use, the ability to customize it’s use with the addition of applications that you download, sleek design and great functionality. The iPhone has paved the way for the smartphone market to take off … and take off it has. With Google getting involved with the Android OS and now the Elise. The innovation and development w/ smartphones right now seems to be ramping up. When I first got my iPhone I found it exciting and new - now that I have an android phone I see the iPhone’s GUI stagnant and boring. The competition has introduced new and exciting features that customers are starting to like. I hope Apple sees this and steps up the design and functionality of the next iPhone.
I see a lot of similarities …
BTW, that phone in the video is just off the hook sick!
