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CNET now has special section for iPhone news/info

CNET, the technology web site, has already created a special section on their web site covering the latest on Apple's latest overnight success: the iPhone.

Visit CNET iPhone news, reviews, videos web site if you would like to take a look at it for yourself.

About a year ago, a former coworker of mine avidly professed his certainty that when the iPhone came out, it would be a flop.

The phone did far better than his prediction. Apple announced last week that in less than two quarters, the iPhone became the #2 best selling smartphone in the world. Blackberry, made by Canadian company RIM is the #1 selling smartphone. All the others have already moved down a position.

Blackberry has over a third of that market. Apple commands exactly half the market share that Blackberry has, according to the statistics from Apple.

What that tells me is that the rest of the smartphone market is very fragmented indeed. If each remaining competitor has less than one-sixth market share, they are not in control of all that much. They cannot set sweeping standards unless they band together.

Apple has banded together a bunch of standard technologies itself. Web Services, XHTML, and so forth are all part of the iPhone technology. Apple has a section of its site dedicated to rounding up the latest and the greatest iPhone / iPod Touch web apps so that their customers will not have to hunt far and wide to get their hands on these goodies.

Apple is rolling out the iPhone SDK that some developers have been clamoring to get. It will be familiar ground to many, since at this point there are probably not too many web developers and programmers who have not used these technologies.

Labels: apple, cnet, iphone, news, standards

posted by John Collins @ 9:03 AM