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iPhone App Store Rejects Find a New Home
eldavojohn writes "A new site called App Rejections (somewhat slashdotted already) aims to provide a home for misfit apps. With Apple offering no documents or discussions on the matter of application rejections, this site might become a popular place to pick forbidden fruit. Could a third party horn in on Apple's monopoly in the iPhone application market?"
So what you are trying to say is that any product that does not sell out on the first day is doomed to failure?
No, Im wondering why there wasn't the same sudden rush to the Android platform that the iPhone enjoyed, if Android is supposedly so much better?
Slow and steady wins the race.
Slow and steady wins the race? In kindergarten maybe, but in the real world slow and steady means low market penetration for years, while your quick competitor builds critical mass years before you. It also isn't mutually exclusive - Apple can be quick to begin with, and then slow and steady later on. Which runner is in front then?
This isn't an endurance race, its a sprint - build that market share, build the revenue streams surrounding the market share, and *then* keep it. But if you don't build it first, then theres nothing to keep.
Analysts are predicting 2012 for Android to routinely outsell the iphone.
Predicting. Based on what I have yet to see explained.
What you also have to remember is that almost anyone who wants an iphone has one, as of July 2010 it will have been released in every western nation for two years which is the standard plan length in our nations. This is going to affect iphone sales a lot.
And yet the iPhone is still selling extremely well, and has sold massively well in pretty much every quarter since it was released. Not everyone ran out at the start and bought the iPhone, and not everyone upgraded to the new models when given the opportunity.
the iphone didn't take that much away from competitors, certainly the likes of RIM and NOKIA aren't hurting, the iphone hasn't taken much from the smart phone market, most of the iphones market share comes from the consumer phone market.
Hmm, so where did the millions of iPhone users and a not insignificant market share come from? The Easter Bunny? It came from the competitors, the market didn't suddenly increase because of the iPhone.
I have to wonder how you came to that conclusion, you seem to have a pretty fixed opinion about Android despite never actually using it?
Funnily enough, I can have an opinion on a situation without having an opinion on the product. The two are not intertwined and I don't have any opinion about Android itself.