Sunday, January 16, 2011
Verizon iPhone to expand market
I think with the new Verizon iPhone, Apple's cell phone market has expanded tremendously. Some had suggested that there may just be a shift of disgruntled AT&T users to Verizon because of the poor network performance of AT&T. But I believe this will be a small percentage. Most people are locked into two year contracts already and they have already invested in an iPhone with AT&T. Verizon's iPhone is a new model which require a new agreement and investment. If this change occurred at a change in new iPhone models then people may switch networks. Plus cell phone networks are like cafeteria food, people will always complain about it. All it takes is one bad experience. But is this experience really bad enough to make you switch networks? More likely there is a large group of current Verizon customers who have been waiting for the iPhone because they did not want to switch to AT&T. The market gets bigger. Now if Apple can release some lower end phones to compete with the low priced Android phones, it would be a checkmate to Google.
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And I would add that Apple could also dabble in some other networks like T-Mobile or Sprint. When people start putting the beauty and affordability (relative to the competition) of an iPhone next to the Androids, I think many more people will choose the iPhone.
And Stitch, the iOS apps are expanding beautifully with the addition of the iPad! And of course, google now realizes they have to compete in this market that Apple opened up precisely because of the additional app market. And Apple has the inevitable head start owing to the fact that they practically built the tablet market by making the first real tablet for consumers! (And, apparently, businesses!)
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