Apple just released the latest quarterly results and the numbers looked good. They recorded a revenue of $7.9 billion and their profit jumped 26%. People in Cupertino are surely happy. They even sold more iPhones than BlackBerries in the quarter, 6.9 million units to 6.1 million.
I’m not a big iPhone fan and I admit that. But objectively speaking, I don’t know how Apple can really expect to grow its handset business if they don’t quickly expand their iPhone lineups. To start with, they should roll out something like a iPhone Nano, which people have talked about. It should be cheaper and smaller, even if less feature-rich. Then perhaps iPhones that include a keyboard or have the flip form-factor… Well, I’m not a product designer so I’ll leave it to Apple to figure how to expand the iPhone portfolio.
But seriously… It’s more than essential to Apple to do this. They need to keep people excited about iPhone and reach a wider range of customers than those tech enthusiasts and early adopters!
