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Originally Posted by rorytmeadows
You're absolutely right, but there is something else going on with the business-user market. Put yourself in the shoes of some of the execs out there. For example, think of hotel rooms and how they are marketed. There are rooms designed for families, couples, and business users. Do you think that the Executive Business Suite at the Hyatt is going to have a video game console in it? You may think, hell, let's put them in every room to cover all our bases. But you can't do that, because the businessman might think badly about the hotel chain if they see that. Yes, people can be so shallow, but it's true.
I guarantee you that iPhone marketing is great for personal sales, but a businessman doesn't want to be seen toting one around into an executive meeting with banks and lenders. They don't want to be associated with that stuff. Myspace, Facebook, etc etc.
I'm not saying every businessman is like this, but you really shouldn't be counting the 20-somethings who still get loaded at the bars a few times a week.
Sometimes you can't have everything without losing some base.
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I understand your point. However, I have to say that the honeymoon suite, or the presidential suite, or whatever the top of the line "consumer" rooms at the hyatt are called- absolutely have everything that business room has and more. And the top of the line business room absolutely has a game console and everything else the top of the line consumer room has.
We're not talking about an average, everyday phone here. This is HTC's top of the line phone that has a keyboard. I guess that makes it HTC's top of the line business phone. Because HTC doesn't understand that consumers want a keyboard.
Have you seen the Best Buy holiday commercial where the guy says his wife is texting 24/7 so they suggest he get her a smartphone? Or the slew of Moto Droid and Moto Click commercials where they tout the device's keyboard (and it's some general consumers using it on facebook or youtube or something)? Consumers WANT a keyboard. That's why the majority of this forum owns a Touch Pro 2. Because I highly doubt business users are hacking their phones up the way most of us here are. Maybe here and there, but not the majority of them. I think most of us here are consumers, who maybe also happen to use this device for some business purposes as well. But my account is a consumer account, as I suspect most of the users of this site are consumer accounts as well.
Anyway, my point stands- the Imagio has all of the business functions that you speak of, but it does not have a keyboard, and it does have a better camera and a flash. Just saying this device is for business does not make it okay to strip a bunch of features.
You know what this reminds me of? All the iPhone fanboys who said stupid stuff like, "We don't need MMS anyway" or "We don't need copy and paste anyway" and then acted like it was the greatest thing since sliced bread when they finally got it. All of us were telling them how their phone was missing basic features, and we were laughing at them justifying it. When they finally got these basic features, only then did they admit they had been sorely missed all along. Here we have a bunch of people doing the same thing. Teh Touch Pro 2 is lacking basic features that even other HTC phones have. There is no justifying that. And even if there was a good justification for it, just saying "it's a business device" certainly doesn't come close to justifying it. Last time I checked, CEO's and other execs bought luxury cars that had all the bells and whistles...