hardeep; yes gaming is big. I don't recall what game sales are but clearly they have the potential to be a big business.
However, I don't think the lack of buttons will hurt the iphone in games -- it is again that they are going to push away developers and so the next great game may not be developed on the iphone. It will come to the iphone, but first mover advantage will not be there.
Apple does have a more coherent model in terms of game distribution (and payment). Not sure about piracy, I think Apple might have a better solution there (i seem to be able to find pirated nokia games online at mosh)
So:
UX: small advantage Nokia
distribution: big advantage Apple
developer: tied right now, perhaps small advantage Nokia
That all being said, gaming is still a "future" cash river rather a current one. while nokia is twiddling its thumbs with ovi, n-gage, nav, etc, Apple is attacking the high margin smartphone market with more usability. Where is HTML email? Better SMS clients? Better picture/album management? Firmware updates for slightly older s60 devices?
Unregistered wrote:Apple does have a more coherent model in terms of game distribution (and payment). Not sure about piracy, I think Apple might have a better solution there (i seem to be able to find pirated nokia games online at mosh)
What solution would that be ? Can't the iPhone be hacked as well ? (jailbreaking anyone ?) I seem to be able to find pirated software for OSX and iPods everywhere too.
Unregistered wrote:
UX: small advantage Nokia
distribution: big advantage Apple
developer: tied right now, perhaps small advantage Nokia
Small advantage ? You do realize you're talking about the dominant smartphone platform, right ? Apple is now third and with the iPhone not really being a smartphone, yet anyway. I don't see how Apple has any advantage or will have in the future for that matter, Nokia and Symbian won't stand still, you can be sure of that.
Unregistered wrote:Apple is attacking the high margin smartphone market with more usability. Where is HTML email? Better SMS clients? Better picture/album management? Firmware updates for slightly older s60 devices?
Apple is what ? You actually need a smartphone to attack the high margin smartphone market, don't you ? In any event, there are no numbers to back this claim up.
While we're at it, where is copy paste ? Where is full bluetooth functionality ? Where is video calling ? Where is video recording ? Where is auto focus ? Where is MMS ? I suppose usability prohibits all the above features, despite the price tag.
Some pre fp1 devices got updates lately, N73 for instance, Nokia is well known for regular firmware updates, considering how many phones it has out there (just look at the N95 for example, where it started from, where it's at now). Apple only has one phone out there, it makes sense they would update it very often.
Yes just about everybody agree different people like different form facter. It doesn't answer the question of why Nokia refuse to design touch screen phone? Its neglech of Touch Screen market is almost self fullfilling arrogant. Capacity is definitely not an issue (look the number of current models they have!) They try to cover every thing else, even the game market. But not one single touch screen phone? which is a growing market for sure....