Originally Posted by
JohnJ80
There are all kinds of case options.
... which you have to buy for each new phone you get.
Originally Posted by
JohnJ80
TThere are battery sleds that work super well (look at iBattz stuff, for instance).
... more stuff that you have to replace with every new phone.
Originally Posted by
JohnJ80
That's the whole point - the differentiation has been dramatically narrowed. That takes away big hunks of market share and reduced the value proposition of the PND suppliers to their customer base. Market share shrinks and costs go up due to reduced volume until the market is ceded to the upstarts. Note: This exact thing played out with Garmin and their smart phone that they ultimately abandoned just as it was coming to market. So, we've already seen this movie before.
It's not clear what "exact thing" you are talking about.
It was a fairly bad GPS unit and a fairly bad/old phone built by a company with zero experience building phones in a mature phone market.