Laurel Jay's Blog

Glancing around the classroom, I notice that half the class owns a macbook. Why is this the case? Also, I can safely assume that at some point or another, 90% of the class owned an ipod or an iphone. Thinking back five years ago, seeing someone with a Mac as opposed to a PC was quite rare – now, some may even call owning a Mac a necessity! Disregarding the fact that for the same amount of memory in an ipod or Macbook, you could buy an equivalent product for a fraction of the price, the Apple logo seems to be the way to go.

So what makes Apple so fantastic? Taking the iphone as an example, the points of parities to other cell phones, smart phones specifically, are the browser, camera, email, games and applications, etc. However, the points of difference for the iphone 4 are facetime and the easy-to-use full touch screen. Comparing the iphone to a Blackberry smartphone, one may prefer the Blackberry because of its qwerty hardware keyboard, designed and focused for fast email typing, and it’s major point of difference, BlackBerry Messenger.

But according to an article from the Vancouver Sun, Apple is coming out with an iPhone Case that Offers a Flip-Out Keyboard. The BlackBerry keyboard is now diminishing as one of it’s points of difference as the article describes the case as a “faux BlackBerry”. Might Apple be becoming more of a technology giant than it already is?

This entry was posted on Monday, October 4th, 2010 at 7:08 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.