Originally Posted By: andy
I agree with just about everything apart from this:
Originally Posted By: JeffS

c) Running apps, while very important, is not the core feature of a phone.

For lots of the iPhone users that I know, apps very much are the core of using the "phone". How people use an iPhone in my experience is very different to how they use non smartphones.

I don't really know how this compares to other smart phone users, because I know very few smart phone users who aren't using iPhones...
This is certainly true- I was amazed myself how my experience with my iPhone was completly different than with a blackberry curve, which I mostly just used for phone and email. The apps are a HUGE part of what makes the iPhone magical.

But I only realized this AFTER buying my iPhone. My perception befor jumping into iPhone land was that apps were simply "nice to haves". In that sense (the mind of a new customer), the quality of apps in the store would probably not sway my purchasing decision the way they would a desktop OS.
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