What if the iPhone wasn’t a Smartphone?
The question is simple: is the iPhone a SmartPhone or is it something different?
I’m not the only one looking for an answer for this question. AbiReserch is trying to analyze pros and cons of the Apple product, announced but not yet released.
The first point we have to focus on is that iPhone is a close device, so even if the operative system is a reduced version of OS X , the user won’t be able to install 3rd part applications not approved by Apple. AbiResearch conclusion is that iPhone isn’t a SmartPhone because it doesn’t fit the SmartPhone definition, which is a device with an operative system where the user has the opportunity of installing third part applications. This definition was useful to distinguish smartphones from traditional devices, but it doesn’t help us with the iPhone. Because the iPhone isn’t a smartphone but it’s much more.
There isn’t any other smartphone using the same operative of a desktop machine, beside very few Linux based devices. There isn’t any other smartphone having the capacity to be used as 3 different devices (phone, iPod and internet device). There isn’t any other smartphone that has the ambition to fly so high.
For the final answer to our question we have to wait until iPhone will be released, till then we are just talking about air…
