19 ordspråk av Carolina Milanesi
Carolina Milanesi
A lot of the growth we're seeing in 2006 and beyond will come from emerging markets.
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All the regions recorded growth this quarter, apart from Japan that saw a small decline in demand compared to the second quarter in 2004.
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Although their market share is going up, this is putting pressure on their margins and profits,
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As competition continues to drive price pressure at the low end and a design and technology 'arms race' at the high end, the survival of the fittest depends more and more on economies of scales, or very carefully cut out niche markets.
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Based on preliminary data for the first two months we expect to see a similar trend as in the first quarter of 2005 with a drop over the previous quarter in the region of five to eight percent.
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Growth will slow down going into the second and third quarter.
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I think it's still a hard target to get, but it looks definitively more possible now than when they were talking about it a year ago.
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In any case, it will be higher than 800 million.
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It's the mixture of products with more basic phones being sold in emerging markets and that's gonna shift your ASP.
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Nokia has proven that there is a sizeable market of consumers in Europe, North America and Japan who are looking to replace their phones with a more powerful device that can do instant messaging, photography, music.
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not decreasing as much as they thought.
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Over all, their mix is improved. They are shifting more toward that mid- and high-tier model,
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People will understand that getting a piece of the cake is better than not getting any cake at all.
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Samsung needs to do something because its share is not growing.
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They need to find new applications and features that will continue to sell their more expensive phones in Western Europe and North America.
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