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A World Without Brands - A Case
Study of Mobile Phone Companies
Rational FX - International Money
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Jupiter interview
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Broken Smartphone Screens
Do Not Have To Mean Broken
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Meet the experts
A World
Without Brands
- A Case Study of Mobile Phone Companies
Kazi Najib Ashraf
Chief Creative Officer at Playtorium
Blogger | Innovator
I ventured in the wonderful world of Mobile
Phones in 1998 when my mentor and friend helped
me get a job interview with Motorola. It went great
and I was shortlisted for the final selection. Motorola was the shining star of the mobile world at
that stage with “Startek Flip Phone”, a raging hero.
People would queue up for the new versions of the
beautifully crafted device; I did not get that job then
but looking back it still sends a chill down my spine
imagining the sharp rise and fall of those inspirational and aspirational “Mobile Brands” within a
decade. I ended up working for another great company, Siemens Mobile but we were always the
second tier brand in the addressed category. The
market leaders during the late 90’s were Ericsson,
Nokia and then followed by Motorola. Following
were the traits of a great device:
1. Small Size (Ericsson was a master of this
craft)
2. Friendly Menu (Nokia) / Ericsson Mobiles
had the worst user experience
3. Common Charging Pin (Nokia)
4. Design (Nokia and Motorola)
5. Samsung (Color Display Technology)
For those who were around the days of plenty
would remember Sony, LG, Panasonic, Alcatel,
Sharp, Siemens, Sagem, BenQ to name a few.
These Brands were targeted towards certain
markets and were considered Tier 2 Brands.
Somehow some of these companies lost touch
with the consumers and had to merge in order to
survive and others just disappeared altogether.
Sony-Ericsson and BenQ-Siemens were a result of
two mergers while Alcatel, Sagem, Panasonic etc just
wrapped up the business. BenQ-Siemens couldn’t
survive a year of Business primarily due to the clash
of Taiwanese and German cultures and Sony ended
up taking over the Sony-Ericsson venture. No one
really bothered about the fact that the first color
display as well as the slider phone was invented by
Siemens and the great R&D culture of the organization ended up spreading over competing brands.
Motorola became a victim of its own success
after the launch of its RAZR series of products and
during its peak in 2006 had a 29% global market share breathing down Nokia’s neck at a close
32%. Motorola lost this share in mere 2 years and
ended up disappearing from the competing arena
altogether. The company just couldn’t design
anything away from the RAZR form factor.
A new phenomenon of stand alone MP3 players started creeping in the market and suddenly
Apple made an appearance with the Ipod, a bit
later they added a radio to the Ipod and called it
an Iphone. This was still a niche and people did
not pay attention to it as a major game changer.
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE BUSINESS HOUSES
DEALING PRIMARILY IN MOBILE DEVICES
Brands started disappearing and margins
got really thin. Rather than 25 there were just a
handful of brands left to Trade. Many companies
went out of business and others diversified and
then something magical happened......
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Symbian became the name of the game followed
by Blackberry, Google, Windows and iOS. Nokia,
Sony-Ericsson, Motorola and a few other manufacturers made a wild bet on Symbian and lost out badly
eventually sacrificing the companies altogether. The
giants of yesterday were a discussion of a past and
no other industry saw the rise and fall of brands as
did the Mobiles closely followed by IT Hardware.
WHAT
IS HAPPENING TO THE BUSINESS
HOUSES DEALING PRIMARILY IN MOBILE
DEVICES
Brands have shrunk further and margins have
catastrophically eroded forcing more and more
businesses to close down. Mobile Phones had become a commodity quite a few years ago and the
companies that failed to realize the changing trends
kept losing and fading like the Mobile brands.
THE SHOW STEALER’S
SO WHAT IS NEXT
It was thus among Blackberry, iOS, Android and
Windows did the game remained. The World of Mobile suddenly became flat and there were no discussions on design or menu but rather on the operating
systems. Blackberry did great for a few years and
then imploded with a feeling of self righteousness as if
every thing they did was good for humanity and nothing could ever replace their business users. The bbm
messaging platform also became a hit among the
younger audiance and now there was a blackberry
for everyone. RIM, the parent company of blackberry
somehow forgot about the growing importance of
apps and the changing mindset of a consumer that
was shifting towards the touch screen device. All
their touch screen phones were a disaster eventually
bringing the whole company face down.
In the meantime, Windows bought Nokia mobile and screwed up the brand and is still licking
its wounds, quite an expensive wound that is.
The Game rests with iOS and Android now.
Apple is trying its best to convince the world that
the iPhone 6S is somehow different from its predecessor and Android stands laughing at every other
Mobility Brand may it be Samsung, LG, HTC, Sony,
Huawei and a few dozen white labels who are at its
mercy. Android (Google) has been able to achieve
the Microsoft Windows stunt on the Mobility Brands
and slowly and steadily these brands are withering
off. No matter which Android Mobile Brand you buy,
it provides the same functionality and performance
and the only difference being processor speed,
camera and size of the display. Even Blackberry
has announced an Android Device, its like having
Apple announcing a Windows device in a couple of
years....Scary Stuff.
This is another turning point in the history of this
technology where a few more brands would meet
their logical end in the next year or so. The Industry
would shrink more driving people out of business.
This is now a war between iOS supporting only 1
device i.e. Iphone 550-750$ price range and Android with a multitude of devices ranging from 30$
to 700$. Its any body’s guess to what the world
would see in a time not too far from today. Either
Apple has to open the iOS to the general set of Manufacturers or would shrink to nothingness as there
is an extent to which you can play with a flat screen
device. Consumers also have a short memory span
as explained above and would not bother to see another Nokia washed by the sands of time.
CONCLUSION FOR THE TRADER
Diversification in the Mobile Software Eco system is the answer to any Organization depending
completely on Mobile Handsets. Its not about the
Body but the Soul of the Device now. Marketing
activities, promotions, dealer programs have to revolve around Apps. Network Operators in terms
of data services, dealers and the retailers have to
jointly provide a winning proposition to the end user
in order to win their trust and to retain them. Failing
to move in this direction would see a correction in the
market that would have irreversible consequences.
Today we are not really bothered about the
brand of toothpaste, shampoo, soap etc that we
use and unless the Mobile Industry including the
Trader realizes this fact, we would be picking up a
mobile device soon from a shelf in a supermarket
stacked right next to cooking oil.
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5. You spend 20k Euros in advertising on handelot, do you think is worth it?
Handelot gathering traders from all over
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Interview with Adnan Celik
owner of Jupiter FZCO
1. Adnan, how long are you trading with mobile
phones?
I started long time ago, in 1994. I begin in
Istanbul, Turkey. After few years, with experience which I get, I moved to Dubai.
More than 20 years I am present in market.
6. What are you best phone movers at the moment?
Lets say that 50% of our business goes
on Iphones, 35% is Samsung models and
15% all the rest.
7. How is Q1 of 2017?
In that time, mobile phones was not so
available like today. Still, my vision was
that it will become necessity so I use the
opportunity and with a lot of risk invest in
this business.
3. How was last year, how do you see the business for the time being?*
I must say that last year was good for us.
Both of our companies, and Dubai and
Wien achieve targets which was decided
on the beginning of the year. Hard work,
constantly following of market and smart
decisions bring us good result.
4. Where you want to grow, in what brands do
you think is the future?
My vote is going to Huawei and Lenovo.
Very good phones with very competitive prices. Also, we must be focused on
Chinese manufacturers like Xiaomi, Zen
phone and OPPO.
First quarter of this year, again I must say,
was successful. With very big and competitive offer of Iphone and Samsung models Chinese spec we manage to close first
quarter of the year according to our targets.
8. What would you advice to the new generation of traders on how to become successful?
*Work hard, bring smart decisions but don’t
run away from risk, be trustable and honest,
be persistent..it will come back to you. *
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First name: Momir
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Email: info@jupitergsm.ae
Mobile phone: 0097 156 599 51 71
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Broken Smartphone Screens Do Not Have
By Brendan James
Broken smartphone screens harm productivity
in the corporate world. Approximately half of all
smartphone users will suffer a damaged screen at
some point in their lives, and this damage will occur for a variety of reasons such as falling out of the
owner’s pocket, sitting on it, or throwing it against
the wall (little wonder). My phone, an iPhone 6
Plus, recently underwent its own trauma, slipping out of my hand and onto a cobblestone sidewalk for no other reason than the fact that I have
twitchy fingers. I spent the next few hours cursing
myself. And then, I began to review my options
for repairing the screen quickly and cheaply.
Smartphones are expensive enough as it is,
and the last thing I wanted to do was spend an
unnecessarily large amount of money. I could
have sent the phone to my local authorised
Apple reseller, but this would have required me
being without my phone for almost two weeks.
Local hole-in-the-wall electronics shops could
fix it within a few hours’ time, but the fees were
too steep to justify the expense. With these two
options eliminated, I began to ponder the possibility fixing the screen myself - no special tools
are required, tutorial videos exist on YouTube,
and new iPhone screens are available on the internet for reasonable prices.
But do those prices guarantee
reasonable quality? Brands pour
themselves into building trust and securing high reputations for offering excellent goods and services. That’s what
we all expect when buying online, but
it is not always what we get.
Online
marketplaces such as
Amazon, eBay and Allegro are absolutely flooded
with iPhone screens of varying degrees of quality.
While certified Apple replacement screens are
available, so too are ones that are made cheaply
and can malfunction or break easily. Sufferers of
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To Mean Broken Confidence
They can better educate themselves in what to
look out for. Small, tell-tale signs such as cable
markings and the use of weasel-words in descriptions of the product make all the difference
in being able to tell the difference between a
certified Apple replacement screen and a cheap
knock-off.
The prevalence of counterfeit screens
isn’t just maddening for consumers, it’s
brand-damaging for online retailers. Fake
goods transactions, when refunds are unavailable, leave consumers feeling betrayed
by the digital storefront from which they were
purchased, and it is usually these online
shops that bear the brunt of consumer frustration. In reaction, online shops have found that
they can no longer simply be the arena where
these transactions happen – they must now
be the referees of fair play. Amazon, for example, now requires merchants to prove that
they have the permission of a parent brand to
sell merchandise on its site. Additionally, the
company is also actively suing those who sell
counterfeit goods online. These visible steps
to right previous wrongs are repairing the trust
of consumers.
Accidents happen, and there is no way to fully
prevent broken smartphone screens. But online
retail brands understand that they are trusted
to be a place that enables the
fixing of such accidents as
conveniently — and honestly – as possible.
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Will Exhibitions Survive As A Business
Booths full of exhibitions, corridors filled
with people distributing leaflets, packed up
cloakrooms, and the beeps of passes being
scanned at the entrance of the hall – these are
the familiar sights and sounds of business conventions.
Cebit is an enormous trade fair that has been organised since 2004. In its first year, over 480,000
business people attended, a number that grew
every subsequent year. The growth stopped in
2009, when attendance dropped by 100,000.
The decline continued in the following years, with
only 200,000 people attending in 2016.
Is the market to blame for this?
One analyst [put identity here, it isn’t clear from
the handwriting who you’re talking about or what
you’re referencing, and the sentence doesn’t
make any sense. Put a link here too, if applicable.] suggests that the Internet revolutionised
not only the market, but people’s minds as well
– it broke down barriers to communication and
made it easier than it ever has been. This innovation made attending brick-and-mortar conventions more of a serious commitment. Additionally,
he mentions the cost of participation - booths,
transportation, travel expenses - as deterrents to
attending trade fairs in the present day. “The last
ten years have seen evolution upon evolution,”
he says. “But that’s all done now, and there are
just not that many new releases anymore. Does
that mean that trade fairs have lost their shine?”
However, in another article of his, “Alexa’s
Smart Home,” we find that all the makings of a
“smart home war” with Amazon’s launch of the
Alexa voice recognition service, judging other
services such as Google Home to be “a drop in
Alexa’s bucket.”
Leaving behind the {…} on other trade fair facilities caused by the changes of the market or
prices, it needs to be mentioned that the quality
of the events have a new face. The visitor of {…}
explains: “Once I got past my initial annoyance
and sadness at what {…} had become, I could see
it was a more relaxed affair where I could amble
from stand to stand, easily breeze through my
light schedule, and meet a bunch of new contacts along the way.”
Questions still remain, however. What is the
point of trade fairs? Are they still a viable method
of advertising or an outdated model of doing
business? Is it a matter of the expectations of
visitors? We can treat them as an exchange for
sharing ideas and socialising with new contacts,
but are they worth the money?
Nokia on the Comeback?
With Samsung launching new instalments
of its flagship Galaxy line, Apple releasing a
new iPhone on an annual basis, and Chinese
vendors taking increasingly bigger shares of the
smartphone market, it’s seemingly impossible
for Nokia to, as Paul Briden says, “return to the
smartphone space.”
Briden reports that Nokia is going to release
an update of its Nokia 3 line, which will be able
to stand toe-to-toe with the top smartphones
of the day. The new phones will reportedly feature 1080p screens, bigger sensors, and fingerprint scanners. These new phones are said
to be similar to the Samsung Galaxy Nexus,
but were created to compete with the Galaxy
S8 and the iPhone 7. Briden praises the price,
saying that it “makes sense” and that the number on the page sometimes makes all the difference in the world.
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Focusing on the new phones’ functionalities, Juno Sarrikas, Nokia’s chief product officer,
states that “we have set ourselves a mission to
deliver the best possible smartphone experience with a beautiful premium design touch.”
Additionally, Google’s main focus was on the
materials from which the phone was produced.
He also touts its camera features, battery life,
and its embrace of the Android operating system. He believes that these new features will
help the company leapfrog Apple and Samsung
in the smartphone market.
Amazingly enough, the Nokia 3310, a flagship phone from the early 2000s is “making
a modern-day comeback” according to Chaim
Gantenberg. Nokia has released it as part of
this new volley of smartphones, and James
Titcomb hails the 3310’s return, calling it an
“iconic machine (…) with a battery that lasts a
month.” Moreover, he praises its thinner size
and colour screen while still keeping its old,
candy-bar form factor, which is owed to shunning the need to run high-demand applications
such as Facebook and WhatsApp. The 3310’s
designers chimed in: “For the Nokia 3310 we
just couldn’t resist. We wanted to reward loyal
Nokia phone fans and make a statement that
shows that heritage, innovation, and modern
design can go hand-in-hand.” The phone also
includes the iconic game “Snake”, updates
with colour and better graphics.
The phone is not without its detractors, however. Fox News calls the 3310 a “dumb-phone
by today’s standards. It certainly can’t do things
we take for granted today, like check your email
or surf the web.”
Does the 3310 and other new releases by
Nokia truly make a “comeback”? Or is it taking
a needless risk? Time will tell.
Facebook owner Mark Zuckerberg is said to
becoming a major player in the smartphone industry, involving his social media company in
some its more crucial business aspects.
His main focus is on photographic effects, such
as filters, which will work as a set of tools for outsourced IT programmers creating apps with the
help of smartphone cameras via the Facebook
app. Zuckerberg mentions that he is also going to
create his own operating system to compete with
the likes of Safari, Firefox, and Chrome.
By the looks of it, Mark Zuckerberg is out
to overtake the companies who create half the
apps on your phone. Questions as to how much
of your personal data you will be required to
disclose to use these new innovations must be
raised. Although all of his plans are for the longterm, it’s not hard to imagine that these products
will make quite a splash when they hit the market. With the announcement of these new ventures, however, the social media mogul is declaring war on the market’s giants and creating
a new era for technology and its users.
Visa or MasterCard - Whose Side Are You On?
Visa and MasterCard have always been rivals on
the market, and have always competed with security and practicality to attract and keep customers.
MasterCard has attained the upper hand by
introducing a fingerprint scanner. This innovation
surely has many advantages, as it ensures security by requiring its user to use a unique identifier
(in this case, a fingerprint) to complete transactions. According to Daniel Roberts, MasterCard
stresses the drawbacks of using cash, connecting
it to illegal business and untracked transactions,
while touting the security of fingerprint scanners.
The company is also experimenting with facial-recognition software, mobile payments, contactless
transactions, and its own “digital wallet” that it
thinks can succeed where others have failed.
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Model?
The World According to Mark Zuckerberg
MasterCard’s old rival Visa, though being the
bigger company, has not kept up with growth.
Why? Being “interchangeable” in consumers’
minds, MasterCard decided to focus on innovating and leapfrogging Visa. Ajaypal Singh Banga,
the new CEO of MasterCard, says that his company not only focuses on technology but security, counting on that to attract new customers and keep existing ones. Daniel Roberts also
mentions that “cards that contain biometric data”
sufficiently infuse these new technologies with
an appropriate amount of safety.
Still, Roberts reminds us that the competition doesn’t sleep, pointing out Visa Checkout
and Apple’s iMoney as suitable competitors.
Visa is still the largest company with the largest
revenue on the credit card market, but it is becoming clear that MasterCard is a pioneer in
technology, proving ready, willing and able
to introduce a whole range of innovations that
make non-cash transactions safer.
Is Samsung Facing a Downturn?
The smartphone market is in the throes of a
boom. As manufacturers prepare to showcase
the newest technologies at the biggest trade
fairs in Europe, it would seem that the boom
shows no sign of busting.
Without a doubt, Samsung has become a leader
in all rankings, aiming for a 25% global market
share, and also reaching a double digit percentage
of global smartphone shipments for the first time in
Q4 2016. Success, however, depends on the markets that the phones are being sold in. Depending
on the price and the local currency rate, both highand low-end phones can be sold in numerous regions of the world. As we read in the article of MWC:
“For Asian manufacturers, Europe is a good place
to start before targeting the US. Cheaper phones
have done well in countries like Spain, where mobile subscriptions are sold without a headset subsidy.” These cheaper phones have cut into Samsung’s market share in Europe, where it dropped to
13.1% because of local vendors.
As for Samsung’s trading manner and its
global recall of the Galaxy Note 7, the manufacturer decided to focus solely on tablet models
at a a time when rivals like Apple have trading
strategies based on multiple different products.
According to 2017 data from Trendforce, Samsung’s market share percentage peaked in 2014,
while Apple’s was 10% less. 2015 saw Samsung suffer a decrease from 27.8% to 24.8% as
Apple reached a peak of 17.5%. In 2016, however both companies’ market share fell by 2-3%
Will Samsung’s market share will continue to
fall? Will that decrease correlate to an increase
for Apple’s market share?
Apple is Samsung’s biggest rival, having sold
over 27 million iPhones with a 6 million yearon-year increase in unit sales. Pushing aside
the market data, Samsung still remains the topseller, says research director Anshul Gupta:
“For 2016 as a whole, smartphone sales
totalled nearly 1.5 billion, up around 5% from the
year before. In terms of vendors, however, Samsung reigned supreme. The company shipped
306.4 million smartphones, giving it 20.5%
of the market. Apple shipped 216.06 million
smartphones for 14.4 percent of the market.”
Gupta also notices that both Samsung and
Apple had ceded ground to Chinese distributors,
which could explain their respective declines. Furthermore, Gupta states that has been continuing
its decline for the past two quarters, to which he
attributes the discontinuation of the Galaxy Note 7:
“The withdrawal of the Galaxy Note 7 left a gap in
its large-screen phone range.” Apple seized upon
this opportunity to close the gap in the market
share rankings; according to Table A, Apple seems
to leapfrog Samsung by almost a million units.
The reasons why Samsung is suffering a
downturn may be the very fact that its rivalry
with Apple exists. As Ganther explains, numerous Asian manufacturers have seen their share
increase. He also states that only a release of
the “next Galaxy flagship phone” can guarantee
Samsung’s quick recovery.
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Best movers on handelot may 2017
- Mobility
1. Samsung 1446 trades
2. Apple 1244 trades
3. Huawei 383 trades
4. Nokia 250 trades
5. LG 250 trades
6. Xiaomi 160 trades
7. Lenovo 127 trades
8. Sony 109 trades
9. Alcatel 88 trades
10. HTC 75 trades
Best movers on handelot may 2017
- Inhome
6. Nikon 26 trades
7. Nintendo 26 trades
8. Canon 21 trades
9. Philips 10 trades
10. Panasonic 8 trades
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1. Samsung 268 trades
2. LG 184 Trades
3. Sony 149 trades
4. Microsoft 48 trades
5. GoPro 37 Trades
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