Shipments fell, the drop in market share, shares, net profit fell ... ... Once scenery infinite apples, recently was the trade that "weakness". Many reasons relate to a blowout in the Smartphone market. AI vector Consulting's latest data show that 2013 scale of smartphone users in China reached 420 million in the first quarter, the chain grew over 10%. With the smart phone market growth, pattern has been changing. "Apple era" pattern, where to go?
"Apple has begun to decline, ' Apple era ' has arrived. "Recently, the research center of Chinese Academy of social sciences, information technology Secretary-General Jiang Qiping said.
In September last year after its highest price us 702 per share, Apple shares lower, falling to around 400 in recent reductions had been more than 40%. 2013 second-quarter results showed Apple recently, its net profit to 9.547 billion dollars, fell for the first time in ten years occurred, declined to reach 18%, "Apple's decline, the core reason is that its innovation capacity and competitiveness of the market have been far worse than before. "Analysys analyst Jun Wang yesterday said to newspaper reporters. We can also see from the Apple iPhone accessories, for example, cute iPhone 4 cases.
Basically it takes two with Apple and HTC. Its earnings in the first quarter, when Ji Ying received 1.44 billion dollars, fell 36.9%; 2.83 million in net profit, down 91.5%. Is even more depressing is that it is an HTC 6 consecutive quarterly profit declines.
Drop, rise, in the pattern of the Smartphone market, there is growing domestic manufacturers everywhere. First, Huawei and ZTE, IDC released data show that both of these vendors have jumped respectively 2012 global cell phone market share for third and fifth place. In China, according to the most recent report of market research firm Sai Noi, cool home-made Smartphone second place.
In addition, AI Media Advisory released yesterday by the China smartphone market quarterly monitoring report showed that the first quarter of 2013, domestic mobile phone brand market share with varying degrees of increase. Lenovo, ZTE, Huawei, cool market share respectively, 9.1%,8.2%, China-made mobile phones branded sales accounted for more than half.
This large rivers and lakes in the Smartphone market, Nokia, Motorola and other "Furtwangler" babies were also newcomers.
Ali phone will debut the global mobile Internet Conference in Beijing. Alibaba will work with ZOPO, Amoi, Kivu, KONKA, pepper 5 launch 6 aliyun mobile terminal manufacturers. Industry observers Liang Zhenpeng to newspaper reporters, Ali launched the mobile phones, to target millions of sellers on Taobao, which is a large potential user groups.
Amazon also began to increase the pace of entering the Smartphone. Prior to its recent hiring of Microsoft Windows Phone7 voice search company EVI team General Manager, acquisitions and a series of actions, speculation of a launch of its own-brand mobile phone products more and more.
"Internet companies now competing to enter the smart phone market, the biggest advantage is a software and systems, disadvantage is very weak in the r. "For smart mobile Internet business in the field of new faces, Liang Zhen-Peng said that" the Internet company it's hard to make the mainstream mobile phones, manufacture and design of foundations are too weak. ”
And once caused controversy and ridicule, "Rookie" millet, also increasingly eye-catching, AI Media Advisory of the China smartphone market quarterly monitoring report notes that millet booty 3.9% market share in the first quarter, and gives "stamina powerful" projections.
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