in this time of crisis they would better think pricing than revolution.

I wish I had missed all other articles on that topic to date and just came across this one.

I’ll be honest, I believe that what Apple does in the next 12 months will have more influence on the future of computing (because, let’s be clear, we are talking about the future of computing and not the future of mobile phones) than anything that was shown or announced at MWC.

That’s really the nub of the matter for me – the main point that so many people seem to miss – Apple are making pocket computers not phones. How clear do Apple have to make it before people finally realise this obviously fact? They didn’t attend the biggest mobile phone show on the planet, shouldn’t that be a clear indication? Yes it’s called a phone, but how else would you market a device build for 2009 to an audience still expecting something from 1999?

Who makes better computers than Apple? Nobody. Who makes better operating systems than Apple? Nobody. Who makes better development tools than Apple? Nobody.

Nokia and all the rest are not competing against some start-up who are just learning how to make great phones. No, they are competing against the very best computing company in the world.

Nokia and the others are the new guys here in 2009, not Apple. This is about computers not smart phones. It is Nokia that is starting almost from scratch and boy doesn’t it just show! Their OS is patched up, their apps messy and their services are strange beasts which even the experts fight against. As an example… Ben Smith of MIR fame, on Twitter no more than 2 minutes ago said, “2 hours trying to get Nokia maps prepped for Prague… dear me…”.

As for something new from Apple. It will be another 30 years or more before somebody (perhaps Apple) launches a product that is as important as the iPhone. Sure, we’ll get bigger and better processors, screens and cameras, but in much the same way that the Mac defined an entire generation of computers, so will the iPhone.

What I find remarkably is that one company managed to do this on two occasions. When historians write the history of computing, they’ll be one company whose name will be on every page.

Some may downplay what Apple have achieved with the iPhone. You’ll get no such bashfulness from me. I praise Nokia to clouds above for what they have achieved with their superb phones over the last 20 years, they have, and still do, make the best phones that ever graced the palms of people the world over. But in this new arena, the post smart phone arena, Nokia seems almost without a clue at times.

Over the last 4 days I’ve been too busy at work to keep up to date with new iPhone applications. I’ve just checked how many new apps were launched in that time, over 600! Amongst those 600 apps were classics such as Zen Bound, a game which could only really work on the iPhone.

I’m sure there are plenty of holes in my analysis, I look forward to reading some of the other replies to your post Matt.

Sometimes you have trust you’re gut instinct and my gut is telling me that the future belongs to Apple and Google. Nokia’s best bet is to make the very best Android computers they can.