Apple Vs. Nokia: The Smartphone Rivalry

K

Kunmui

New member
Good read about what would take for Nokia or Apple to control smarthphone market:

http://www.theglobalist.com/StoryId.aspx?StoryId=8616

"If, hypothetically, the current growth rates of Nokia and Apple were to continue, Apple would sell 35-45 million smartphones in 2010, about half of Nokia?s estimated 70-80 million units ? or 10% of Nokia?s total mobile devices worldwide.
But to surpass Nokia globally, Apple would have to increase production ten-fold ? to some 400-500 million smartphones on an annual basis.

And yet, Apple is already struggling to manage its explosive growth ? as reflected by the iPhone 4?s ?signal loss,? which led to a firestorm of criticism from the media and consumers. Now Apple is also grappling with another dilemma: The White iPhone 4 is suffering from light leakage. "

"Nokia?s challenge is regional and technological. To stabilize its competitive position, it must launch hits in the smartphone market in the next 6-18 months and, concurrently, increase its market share in the United States. Otherwise, it risks deterioration in the United States and in other advanced economies, as well as over time even in the emerging world. "
 
That's a false comparison and totally besides the point. The iPhone only plays in the higher end, premium device market.

The REAL competition is with Nokia vs. the HTC/Samsung/Sony-Ericsson/Motorola Androids. Android phones are coming to the mid-range now, with the ZTE Racer, and into next year. That's where the fierce battle will be for Nokia.
 
Yeah I was going to say something similar.

I didn't bother reading the article, because the quoted paragraphs were so stupid I know there wasn't any use to it.

Apple and Nokia don't compete. More and more Nokia is shipping Symbian on every phone it makes with a touchscreen, so Nokia has actually become a low end smartphone manufacturer. All of the big manufacturers are competing in the high end space but Nokia is not.

And Apple isn't struggling to manage growth, the antenna issue only ever affected a small number of people, the vast majority of iPhone users didn't care about it.

And the point of a company isn't to build and ship as many devices as possible, it is to make as much money as possible. So only a complete idiot would care about who ships more phones, the companies themselves are concerned with who makes the most money, not who builds the most phones. At the moment Apple is the most profitable cellphone company.

Apple doesn't want to ship as many phones as Nokia, it sells a high end product, and if you start selling a high end product very cheaply and everyone has one, it isn't high end anymore.

Apple is competing with Android smartphone manufacturers, HTC/Samsung/Motorola and maybe a few others for having the best hardware and software in their phones, because when somebody is considering a new high end smartphone, they look at either buying an iPhone or one of the high end Android phones, Nokia isn't even a part of that picture or market.

Please stop linking such badly written crap.
 
Back
Top