iPhone Killer

What Does iPhone Killer Mean?

iPhone killer is a buzzword used to describe any smartphone with the potential of surpassing the iPhone’s popularity and overtaking its market share.

Techopedia Explains iPhone Killer

The success of the iPhone has inspired many mobile phone companies and organizations to create various smartphone iterations to generate interest and convert iPhone and Apple consumers and followers.

However, iPhone’s buyers remain loyal for many reasons, including:

Smartphone users want the full hardware and software experience.
Users want access to Apple’s ecosystem.
The iPhone software is generally considered to be more robust
Phones initially dubbed as iPhone killers include the T-Mobile G1 (also known as HTC Dream), Motorola Droid, Blackberry Storm, Google Nexus One and Palm Pre.

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Margaret is an award-winning writer and educator known for her ability to explain complex technical topics to a non-technical business audience. Over the past twenty years, her IT definitions have been published by Que in an encyclopedia of technology terms and cited in articles in the New York Times, Time Magazine, USA Today, ZDNet, PC Magazine, and Discovery Magazine. She joined Techopedia in 2011. Margaret’s idea of a fun day is to help IT and business professionals to learn to speak each other’s highly specialized languages.

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