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Ruler on 03 March 2015
TomaTito said:

I've been part of the Xiaomi movement since last year. So far so good.


Yeah xiaomi makes very good smartphones now



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Conina on 03 March 2015
Landguy said:

Another added thought, Apple isn't much into putting ANY cost into the software they sell.  So, the real margin on their software is close to 100%.  They are just a pass through of other peoples stuff with very little cost to them.

Sure they have a great profit margin from that perspective, but not close to 100%. They also have operation costs for keeping the appstore and the free services (Maps, Messages, Mail, FaceTime, iCloud, iOS upgrades...) running: data centers and its personnel, net traffic costs, curation, support,...



Kerotan on 03 March 2015
kowenicki said:
Kerotan said:
kowenicki said:
 

A lot lower. Featurephones are dead in the developed world. Thats why you see big drops from Samsung and Microsoft, they are the biggest in that space by a mile. 

Windows smartphone sales increased decently last year and they will increase by more this year.  Other manufacturers are now looking at windows again too.

 


Should feature phones not be increasing in popularity in the developing world?  Places like china and Indi? 

China is moving rapidly to smartphones, India i suspect is moving that way. Africa is featurephones.


I just find it mad how the developing world is not doing their time with feature phones.  Smartphones have such an impact by the sounds of it and everyone wants to get one.  



Nate_Drake on 03 March 2015
Burek said:
Wow, that's quite a lot of old phones, dropping the market share from 9.9 to only 2.8 for WP.

Also, how is it that hey are not losing, when they seem to be one of the very few losing marketshare last year. And quite a steep drop. Also losing market share in OS.

Windows Phones are the worst buy if anyone is looking for smartphones, with barely any apps and a terrible UI. I had one for 6 months, and felt born again after moving to Android.
Hopefully they move away completely from Windows Phones (I know that it seems unlikely with their new strategy), but if they stick with it, they will continue to lose marketshare until they become completely irrelevant.

 

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Conina on 03 March 2015
Kerotan said:
kowenicki said:

China is moving rapidly to smartphones, India i suspect is moving that way. Africa is featurephones.

I just find it mad how the developing world is not doing their time with feature phones.  Smartphones have such an impact by the sounds of it and everyone wants to get one.  

The smartphone is often the only computer / internet device they have. A mobile computer they can always carry around and which can't get stolen or destroyed while they aren't at home.

Many smartphone features which are convenient for us (tasks which we could also accomplish on our laptop, home pc or home console) are essential for them since they have no other device for these tasks.



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Kerotan on 03 March 2015
Conina said:
Kerotan said:
kowenicki said:

China is moving rapidly to smartphones, India i suspect is moving that way. Africa is featurephones.

I just find it mad how the developing world is not doing their time with feature phones.  Smartphones have such an impact by the sounds of it and everyone wants to get one.  

The smartphone is often the only computer / internet device they have. A mobile computer they can always carry around and which can't get stolen or destroyed while they aren't at home.

Many smartphone features which are convenient for us (tasks which we could also accomplish on our laptop, home pc or home console) are essential for them since they have no other device for these tasks.


Good point.  I'd imagine the home pc market will decline soon. 



Conina on 03 March 2015
Kerotan said:

Good point.  I'd imagine the home pc market will decline soon. 

Or the home console market. Or both. Or none. We'll see in the next years what happens.



MoHasanie on 03 March 2015
kowenicki said:
MoHasanie said:
2.8% is nothing. I mean, 2 years ago many research firms predicted Windows would have 15% of the market by 2015 and that clearly hasn't happened.


Many said 15% by 2015?  show me.  I saw 10% by 2017.

2 years ago someone here said Sony would be above Samsung.  You cant take extreme predictions seriously, but they happen.

Yeah, I was wrong, it was 10% by 2017. But still, even that looks unlikely. 



    

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