I, like many, am
interested in the latest, newest and shiniest new gadgets and in particular
smartphones (read iPhones). So I’ve been eagerly awaiting the most recent
launch of the iPhone 5S and the more fun-bound iPhone 5C. With every new phone
comes the usual swag of analytics. Value for money, could the vendor have
packed more features, has this leap-frogged incremental advances, and more.
What really caught
my attention this time however was the number of analysts and journalists
seeing the new iPhone batch as not really constituting a quantum leap in
innovation – and some claim that It could be that there just isn't much more
you can do to jazz up a smartphone. In which case, we've reached "peak
smartphone".
This kinda think
is a little shortsighted isn’t it? After all, wasn’t it Thomas Watson (chairman
and CEO of IBM who oversaw that company's growth into an international force from 1914
to 1956) who was supposed to have made the remark in 1943, "I think there is a
world market for maybe five computers".
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