{"id":10009,"date":"2013-01-08T08:20:54","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T08:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/a_larger_iphone_-_apple_will_have_to_listen_now.html"},"modified":"2022-10-14T18:43:18","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T22:43:18","slug":"a-larger-iphone-apple-will-have-to-listen-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/a-larger-iphone-apple-will-have-to-listen-now.html","title":{"rendered":"A Larger iPhone – Apple Will HAVE to Listen Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes I feel like a broken record MP3 player but when you know you are right and you are a student of history, you see the mistakes companies make before they do. On July 8th<\/sup> of 2010 I told you that larger Android devices would be a threat<\/a> to Apple. The point was that Apple is repeating its mistake from the eighties where it had its own hardware competing against many manufacturers. At the time price\/performance was the Achilles heel of Cupertino but now the challenge is not only price\/performance but form factor.<\/p>\n

Apple can’t possibly come out with every size phone and anticipate market needs but they could have done the obvious and come out with a wider phone after reading my piece which is exactly 2.5 years old today.<\/p>\n

Now Barclays estimates<\/a> the phablet market will grow to $135B in 2015. Where is Apple in this game? Nowhere, unless you count the iPad mini which isn’t a phablet but a slightly smaller tablet which is bigger than most of its competition.<\/p>\n

I have been consistent about my thoughts on the matter as you can see from my past entries:<\/p>\n