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Apple's iPhone is the number one phone in the land

Not just smart phone mind you. Phone. Apple's iconic gadget phone which can only be had for $200-$300 with two year data plan outsold every mobile (and land line too, whynot?) phone. From the $25 dollar pay as you go phones to Blackberries to Tmobile Sidekicks and all of the fallen iPhone killers in between. Even the Motorola Razr which you can get for less than free with a plan had been the best seller for the better part of the last three years. Not any more.

NPD has the news today ... specifically that iPhone is the number one phone amongst adult consumer shoppers. The business market is smaller than consumer and the children's market is much less significant than the adult market so can't we just say overall? Or perhaps more Blackberries sold in the enterprise. Anyway, the point is clear. iPhone is on top.

That means in a few months, you'll probably be more likely to see an iPhone in someone's hands than a Razr. It also means that iPhone has reached critical mass. Non-techies can confidently pick one up as well. Grandmas know about them. Joe Sixpack wants one. They'll of course have heard it is a best seller. This is of course fantastic news for the iPhone development community who now have millions more potential customers to sell their wares to.

If this all sounds familiar for an Apple product, it really looks like Apple's iPhone is hitting the trajectory that the iPod line had hit. It is the market leader in the smartphone name space. Ubiquity.

And things are only looking up. JD Power's annual survey of phone satisfaction came out recently with the iPhone on top.

Oh and don't forget it is twice as reliable as a blackberry and three times as reliable as the Treo. That, and really cool new apps are coming out for the App Store that are pushing the limits of what a gadget has been traditionally able to do.

Finally, there have even been a few rumors of price drops happening that should keep iPhone up there with the leaders...here's to a bountiful Christams shopping season!

 

What People Are Saying

iPhone luv

I have an original iPhone and I love it more everyday...I can't wait until they figure out how to stop the browser from crashing every few minutes.

Give away your iPhone away

Give away your iPhone away and get a Treo.

Killer iPhone

We have moved from the hope of future iPhone killers to the recognition that the iPhone itself is simply killer.

That the iPhone has bested the ENTIRE LINE-UP of Blackberrys is nothing short of breathtaking.

Less than 5 months ago, Verizon Wireless CEO, Ivan Seidenberg said, "There goes the conspiracy again. You're declaring them [Apple iPhone] a winner before they've earned it on the field." I think we can safely say the iPhone is officially a winner now, if it wasn't already a winner then. There is no longer any question that Apple has earned the title "on the field."

Verizon Wirless was approached first with the opportunity to be the exclusive carrier of the iPhone when it launched. Seidenberg decided the iPhone would flop, and decided to pass. What do you have to say now, Mr. Seidenberg, about your decision to forgo the iPhone? I myself am among the tens of thousands who left my Blackberry behind along with the Verizon Wireless network for AT&T and the iPhone 3G. I would have been plenty happy sticking around with Verizon, but the truth is, I haven't missed Verizon or my Crackberry even once since taking the leap.

New apps added for the iPhone every single day keep me feeling like I've purchased the gift that just keeps on giving.

Would I consider Google's Android in the future? You betcha. But, the price would have to come WAY down. That phone is clunky! An eyesore by any standard. But the real kicker is that it only comes with 1 Gigabyte of flash memory! At a mere $20.00 less than the iPhone (which comes standard with 8 Gigabytes or 16 Gigabytes of memory), I'm seriously deeply in the hole financially if I try to upgrade Android to put it on the same footing as iPhone in the memory department. That is probably one of the biggest reasons Android has landed on the market with such a resounding thud - I mean dud! That and the fact that people are scared that if Android doesn't start to take off here on a realistic scale pretty soon, then there will never be thousands of applications like are available on the iPhone, and people's investment in Android will have been a waste comparable with the purchase of a Zune!

Bravo Apple Inc. It makes me almost - ALMOST - consider looking at a Mac when I upgrade my home and office computers. We'll see.