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They're not doing well, but they have 41% of the market share? Apple and Google dream of having that kind of market share.
Apple has 3% market share, but 39% profits share. Which one would you choose?
They're not doing well, but they have 41% of the market share? Apple and Google dream of having that kind of market share.
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Apple has 3% market share, but 39% profits share. Which one would you choose?
Depends on a lot of other factors. In 1989, Apple enjoyed huge profits from the Mac. The management at the time made the wrong decision to focus on profits at the expense of marketshare.
I don't think they could compete on the cheap with Chinese clones with razor margins then as they can't today. It is simply a different business.
They are the only company that survived,Amiga, Commodore, Atari, Spectrum,all perished, so not so wrong.
If you ask the cheap product manufactures in China, all want to be Apple, life is better selling a small number of units at a high price that selling millions by weight.
So what will be their OS of choice for sub $150 phones with a keypad and without a large touchscreen? Or will that category of phone simply disappear?
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1 or 2 years? No. Lots of cheap (and some that aren't even all that cheap) Nokia phones here in Italy still are still sold with S40, which is the step below Symbian. And that's still in "the west". I don't know what phones are like in places like India, but I assume that the low end is fairly low end...
I have no trouble at all imagining that 100€ (unsubsidized) Android phones will be available soon. You can buy a 210€ (unsubsidized) phone from HTC right now on Amazon. That’s not far off. That’s not a sudden death – I’m pretty sure that you will be able to buy Symbian phones in two years – but I think that there will be far less dumbphones in the future.
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If only market shares were fixed numbers. Myspace was doing very well before facebook came along. How could a current (and falling, in nokia's case) market share garantee anything about the future?
There is absolutely no comparison between Nokia and Myspace. Nokia is coming out with new things like S^3 and running app contests to encourage development. Myspace failed because they did nothing when an unquestionably superior product came out.