kowenicki said:
osed125 said:
VGKing said:
famousringo said:
DirtyP2002 said:
This is a start I guess, eventhough I don't get the point to brag about a 5% market share. Who the hell cares if you are third, fourth or fifth - a 5% market share is not impressive to me.
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There are six billion mobile subscribers on this planet. If you can earn just one dollar from 5% of the mobile market, you have just made a $300 million profit. Yes, I'm muddying the waters between smartphones and dumbphones, but smartphones are already tipping the balance in developed countries, with developing countries sure to follow. The future of the whole mobile phone market is what's at stake here.
Sony's problem isn't marketshare, it's that it can't compete on cost and hasn't yet found a differentiator so they can command a premium for their phones and start earning money.
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LOL! Just....no.
There are 7 billion people in the world, you realy thing a whopping 6 billion of them are paying a monthly cellphone bill?
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He exaggerated, but it's still an incredible high number: 75%
http://mashable.com/2012/07/18/mobile-phones-worldwide/
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That article is all over the place.
1. 1st it says that 75% of the globe has a mobile phone (I say bullshit)
2. then it says 6 billion people have a mobile contract (I say bullshit again)
3. then it says that 5 billion of those subscription sare in the developed west!?!? huh?
each of those statements is at odds with the other two statements.
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I couldn't find any other articles (didn't try that hard tbh), there is also the wikipedia list of countries by number of mobile phones in use, but most of the data is really old, so I didn't use it at first.
