Is Apple Late to the Phone Game?

Michael Gartenberg | January 09, 2007, 09:02 AM

I've been getting this question a lot this morning. The answer is no. Sure, there's stuff they could have done earlier but people forget that Apple was not first to market with the iPod either. There were a lot of other folks with devices in the market. Nor was it first with a flash based music player. And it was also one of the last vendors to put a recordable CD player in their computers.

The phone market is dynamic and we're at a point in time where the technology is finally available that can make something like the iPhone viable. This product could not have been done two years ago and come to market the way that it has. Yes, I know other devices can do a lot of what the iPhone can do but that's like saying there's a lot of other music players out there as well.

No, I don't think everyone is going to want to make the move to the iPhone, but enough people will that it will be a success. And like the iPod, don't think that Apple is going to stop with one model in this line. This game just a whole lot more interesting and will only continue to do so over time.