Nokia still king of the handset
 

Some interesting figures if your interested!!!!


http://www.techflash.com/seattle/201...ech-bytes.html

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BADA > Wp7.

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The king of mobile industry....

having a clown taken the throne.

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Real sales figures (a la Gartner) as opposed to shipping numbers give a clearer picture of consumer demand IMO.
Interesting that here in Australia, feature/dumb phone sales is what have kept nokia in the top spot in recent quarters, however, they've only achieved the numbers by slashing handset prices in that segment by up to 45%.
It starts to give a clearer picture of how far Nokia is willing to go to retain top spot, when they are willing to sacrifice profitability to do so.

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People like to spotlight and worship companies selling goods at high profit margin, while ditching companies selling goods in high volume but at a relatively lower profit margin. ;)

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Let's see how this continues...

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Accourding to the article, Nokia isn't going to release their Meega phone to the US....

I do hope that Europe gets some "Meega phones" :D

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in the days of N95, even the arrogant Nokia was "selling goods at outrageous profit margins".... looks like it finally bit the dust (for the stupidity it's executives are worth)

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I'm not saying selling goods at high profit is evil, I'm just talking about how people perceive it. Let me explain.

The profit margin increase when the economics of scale has been achieved. However, it doesn't mean a company should not sell goods at high profit margin. Talking about high profit margin N95 is nothing compare to Vertu, a spin-off of Nokia. It is considered fair to customers when the profit margin is proportional to real values in goods.

Some companies, however, fix their goods at a high prices regardless of economics of scale they have achieved. The gain in profit at the expense of social lost could be achieve by monopolization, inelasticity in price change, limiting supply, or legal authorities like patents, etc. At any rate, it's customers' right to fight against these kinds of obvious, but legal, exploitation.

However, opposite is true nowaday. People may love a product because the company manufacturing it is the profit-leader. So being a leader in sales volume is being ditched, while a leader in profit margin are being appraised of.

It is like saying "I love you more when you beat me harder." Call me a conservative, but it's just....wrong.

I might have been over-simplifying in my original statement, but to explain is lengthy and boring. I wish you don't mind.

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*SPOILER ALERT*













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