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Apple's Smartphone Growth Slows as Mobile Phone Market Accelerates in 2Q 2013

http://www.bgr.in/news/can-xiaomi-repeat-its-china-success-in-india/
Can Xiaomi repeat its China success in India?

One of the major reasons for Xiaomi’s success and it catching the attention of the outside world has been the pricing of its phones. Xiaomi sells high specced phones that can compete with flagship Galaxy smartphones from Samsung and deliver it to consumers at almost half the price. Its latest Mi3 smartphone, for instance, costs just $327 or half the price of the latest iPhone or the Galaxy S4. The specifications include the top-of-the-line Nvidia Tegra 4 or Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 chipsets, 2GB RAM, 5-inch 1080p display and 13-megapixel camera. Unlike most Chinese vendors, Xiaomi claims to use the best components that are used by the likes of Samsung and Apple.

Xiaomi’s founders like to compare their company to Amazon more than Apple. Rather than raking in huge margins on its hardware, Xiaomi sells it almost at cost to consumers. It then makes money by selling apps, games and online services.
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Their tagline: Top of the line specs at half the price
 
egoistaxx9 said:
apple makes only one phone in the whole year and still, they're the 3rd biggest smartphone vendor, that's awesome:cool:
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Actually they make two phones now, don't they. The 5C and 5S are being released. And similar to some other manufacturers - they have had different versions based on what telecom you are with. Apple chose not to use any name differentiator. Some manufacturers have adjusted their name based on which carrier has the phone (and some other minor differences as well). Not the rule - but not just an exception either.

This whole argument is silly anyway. Marketshare is only a piece of the equation when it comes to success.
 
samcraig said:
This whole argument is silly anyway. Marketshare is only a piece of the equation when it comes to success.
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True. But it doesn't look good for Apple in the largest smartphone market.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101032056

In the second quarter Xiaomi overtook Apple in China's smartphone market, with a 5 percent share, compared with Apple's 4.8% share, according to market research group Canalys.
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And Xiaomi will continue to put on the pressure on Samsung and Apple both in China with their "high specs but half the prices" flagship phone. There is a reason why this company that started selling its first smartphone less than 2 years ago is worth twice as much as Nokia.

It's gaining market share VERY fast.
 
EbookReader said:
True. But it doesn't look good for Apple in the largest smartphone market.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101032056



And Xiaomi will continue to put on the pressure on Samsung and Apple both in China with their "high specs but half the prices" flagship phone. There is a reason why this company that started selling its first smartphone less than 2 years ago is worth twice as much as Nokia.

It's gaining market share VERY fast.
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All I know is that as long as I get to use the phone that works best for me - no matter who makes it or what platform it's on. I don't care what anyone else uses. Everyone has a different use case. I don't buy my phone(s) based on what's cool, hip, my peers have, etc.
 
samcraig said:
Actually they make two phones now, don't they. The 5C and 5S are being released. And similar to some other manufacturers - they have had different versions based on what telecom you are with. Apple chose not to use any name differentiator. Some manufacturers have adjusted their name based on which carrier has the phone (and some other minor differences as well). Not the rule - but not just an exception either.

This whole argument is silly anyway. Marketshare is only a piece of the equation when it comes to success.
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the 5S and 5C havent even launched yet, which means, that this chart doesn't take those phones into account, before now there was only 1 iphone for the whole year and, still they managed to become the 3rd biggest seller, dont you think that's awesome?
 
samcraig said:
Actually they make two phones now, don't they. The 5C and 5S are being released. And similar to some other manufacturers - they have had different versions based on what telecom you are with.
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Actually Apple makes three phones. The iPhone 5S, 5C and 4S. As you noted, each has multiple sub-models for different radios and carriers (five different model numbers for each of the 5S and 5C).

xofruitcake said:
And how do you count the 64bit A7, the M7 and finger sensor in 5s vs NFC and large screen that all Android phone are focusing on now on the innovation scale?
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None of it is really innovative. It's just using what's available.

Out of the 3, M7 is the most impressive even though it does not have any immediate impact to sales this year. It is also the hardest for Android phone maker to respond. It is a Chicken and egg problem. Without the motion sensors, no one can develop any app. Handset makers like Samsung, ZTE etc are not going to put another 15-20 build cost into including a motion sensor (and they have t design it themselves too.
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Using coprocessors is almost as old as dirt. Err... silicon.

Which Android maker will do that?) into their phone without seeing any immediate sales increase. So next year, we will start see a lot of motion and location related app on IOS that no one else has. And I bet there is no way Android phones will respond.
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The Moto X already has a low power coprocessor which can wake up the phone when it hears its master's voice, know if it's in a pocket or not, and bring up the camera with a wrist shake.

Its so-called "contextual computing processor" handles the sensors, display and touch interaction, and also apparently functions as the primary processor when the phone is in standby mode, so that it can show status and notification information on a part of the display without using much power.

NFC are supposed to take over the world now. Where are the killer apps for NFC?
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A lot of people are using NFC now for payments, with custom tags for custom actions, and as the initiator for device-to-device information transfers.
 
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Could the Nexus 5 LTE put pressure on Apple market share, especially in Europe where unsubsidized devices are common?

High specs at the half the price....Assuming the Nexus 5 LTE will be sold at $299.

Not to mention Amazon smartphone ambition. HTC acquisition perhaps?
 
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