While waiting at the door of my local Best Buy for a Wii Fit, I noticed that four of the people next to me were iPhone users. Here are some anecdotes.
No one claims to be using the iStore. Apps that cost, are not as important as the Internet itself.
So then what were the requirements for their smartphone, music and browsing. They like listening to the music and AOL music was a hit as well as Shazam.
Both are free but of course you load them via the iStore. So at what point does the iStore really add value. Isn't the Internet the right distribution? When the bandwidth is there? What is the advantage?
Speaking of which, The Wii has been an interesting controlled release. After learning the lessons of overbuilding gaming systems Nintendo has been careful to emphasize profitablility over production counts. So amongst the iPhone users I found someone who was standing on line with his girlfriend but not buying the Wii Fit even though he was one of the first to own the system. The system is no longer that interesting to him and he only uses it when he has friends over. So the profitablity issue has a nuance in the attenuation of this customers attention.
It will be interesting to see what Apple announces today with iLife 09 and the connect of Faces and Places. My own sense is I am getting more and more concerned about keeping my privacy, but I am sure that's just Mii.
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