Letters to the Editor
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Why are other electronic manufacturers are so slow to learn?
I'm impressed by the 20 minute iPhone demo. It takes a lot to get me excited about any new product, but I would gladly click a link and buy one of these things right now.
Leaving aside the millions of words being written on how the iPhone works, I wonder why almost every other available cell phone looks like it was designed and built in the 1980s. Clunky, bulbous chrome buttons which wobble when you touch them; slides and hinges with way too much clearance, clumsy, heavy-handed design, dust and water traps. Could it be because phone manufacturers only look at other phones - and cell phones came from decades past, and haven't evolved?
There can't be too many secrets now about the reasons for the iPod's success, but phone manufacturers failed to see the writing on the wall, and have allowed iPhone a free pass, and will now have to try to catch-up - those who can.