There has been a great deal of talk about the iPhone - how revolutionary it is, the latest version and of course competitors to it. The iPhone is beginning to take a chunk of the Smart Phone category away from BlackBerry. Additionally, much of the recent press has been about the competition releasing devices to combat the iPhone and how great the devices are, blah, blah, blah. I have some bad news for the competition. They will never surpass the iPhone in popularity. I am not saying this because I am an Apple loyalist (I do not own an iPhone). I am saying this because it is law. It is part of the laws of “Positioning” which in marketing-speak is to say that the iPhone has captured the “first-mover” position in the minds of consumers. In addition to their superior operating system, which the competition cannot copy, they have created the perception of innovation with the iPhone as it relates to what consumers were used to.
All that said, the iPhone will most likely never supplant BlackBerry as the number one Smart Phone either and will remain the #2 in the category. But, the competition will never supplant the iPhone and what it has done in terms of its market share. The iPhone will however, be the #1 touch screen phone, if it already isn’t. Remember when the iPod came out and was subsequently followed by all the iPod killers like the Zune? Umm, where’s the Zune now? Same law is in effect. First mover, combined with innovation, from a company that has the ability to let customers know about new products will always own the mind of the consumer.
WrapMail will abide by the same law. We have the first-mover advantage and have created innovation to the most frequently used business communication tool there is - email. Much like the iPhone did for Smart Phones, we will benefit from the same transformation in consumer thinking and perception about email marketing and how to use ‘everyday’ emails to communicate to customers and prospects.
Dave Kustin - EVP Marketing, WrapMail
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