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23rd September 2013, 09:52 #3161
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23rd September 2013, 19:31 #3162
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BlackBerry shares just halted on the NASDAQ pending a news announcement. Looks like the company is heading the same route as Nokia and Palm, and is about to be acquired prior to sinking totally.
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23rd September 2013, 20:12 #3163
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Originally Posted by henners88
The market Apple need to be really worried about is China. They've played hardball with China Mobile, the world's largest mobile network which has basically told them to offer iPhones at a discount or f' off from the very beginning. Apple had thought that not being able to offer iPhones on their network would bring China Mobile to their knees but no such luck. Several years later CM are telling Apple that they are not going to pay the usual subsidies for iPhones, Apple has to offer them at a discount or lose out on the biggest single market in the world.
As a result Apple is losing sales hand over fist there and is trying to clinch a deal with CM and also get more sales through other networks. The problem here is that their iPhones sell for $900 due to taxes while Android equivalents are several times cheaper. Apple therefore needs a much more affordable model now to get market penetration there before its too late and their new model isn't cheap enough IMO.
Its not much better for Google in China BTW, the government forces Android to be shipped entirely without Google apps like the App shop, Gmail and maps so they don't make any money from China at all.
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23rd September 2013, 21:19 #3165
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24th September 2013, 17:56 #3166
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In seeking to recapture marketshare in China and other developing markets, if they go the route of offering phones that are perceived as "down market", Apple has to finely balance the benefits of increased sales with the risk of margin shrink and damage to the brand. This is precisely the point that Steve Jobs was making when he said that Mercedes and BMW don't obsess about marketshare as much as brand preservation. But still, BMW and Mercedes do play at the lower end of the luxury market. IMO, this is what Apple has to figure out. I'm not sure that they can continue to do as well as they have if they just focus on premium priced tech gadgets.
I think the China Mobile deal will happen sooner than later. They do need that. From what I've read, China Mobile has already began work on an advertising campaign."Every generation's memory is exactly as long as its own experience." --John Kenneth Galbraith
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24th September 2013, 21:02 #3167
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Those concerned about Apple and market share might want to read this:
http://m.tuaw.com/2013/09/24/why-smartp ... es-top-pr/
If Apple wanted to secure a majority of the market share, they could simply produce cheap, crap phones. They have the brand that sells after all. I think the article explains the reasons why they don't take the easy route..
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Originally Posted by donKey joteOpinions are like ar5eholes, everyone has one.
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24th September 2013, 22:18 #3170
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So if cheap phones will hurt your image and thus result in fewer sales, then why is Samsung doing so well?
They have both simpler and cheaper models as well as their flagship the S4, still they have the largest market share.
Regarding Apple and Iphone they're aren't really that "exclusive" as they think it is, expensive yes but overpriced
when there's S4's and HTC One's that are both better and cheaper....Funny how ev'rything was roses when we held on to the guns...
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