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“I felt the time has come to seek new opportunities in my life,” Anssi Vanjoki said in the press release. “At the same time, I am one hundred per cent committed to doing my best for Nokia until my very last working day. I am also really looking forward to this year’s Nokia World and sharing news about exciting new devices and solutions.”
MacDailyNews Take: Just a sec while we fire up good old iCal. Oh, look:
With the Mac, Apple has attracted much attention at first, but they have still remained a niche manufacturer. That will be in mobile phones as well. – Anssi Vanjoki, November 2009
Source: Nokia Corporation
MacDailyNews Take: Like rats from a sinking ship.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Mike in Helsinki” for the heads up.]
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So, we don’t think he would be welcome at Apple?
iPhone is still a niche player. They’re only selling phones on 6 continents. That’s not the entire globe.
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Got to love those rats!!
Brings new meaning to Meego!
I gotta love those iCals. Awesome!!!!
We need an Apple Store in Antarctica!
Instead of a glass cube, use the Fortress of Solitude as inspiration.
man an apple store in antarctica would be awsome!! 😀 I could finally fulfill my life-long dream to move there!!
That’s a pretty strong response to hiring a CEO that worked for M$.
@ GWU Grad Student
Apple could hire him as a consultant of sorts. His job will be to “train” new Apple employees in a weekly segment called — “This is what you DON’T want to do.”
Basically, it’s a recap of the last few years of his career as a Nokia exec.
The archives of the Web are littered with embarrassingly inaccurate predictions issued by sundry self-aggrandizing analysts and corporate bigwigs with respect to the likelihood of failure of the iPhone and iPad. One would think that some of them would learned some restraint by now (however, these quotes to make for fun reading). As Mark Twain stated, “”Better to be thought a fool, then to open your mouth and remove all doubt.”
Apple’s iPhone has a 3% market share of the cell phone pie.
WTF, if 3% market share is not a niche player, WTF is a niche player?
“Apple’s iPhone has a 3% market share of the cell phone pie.”
You obviously don’t understand much about business. “Market share” is meaningless out of context. “Free in morning cereal” phones don’t matter. Cash registers running Windows don’t matter. What matters is profitability. Apple now has what slice of mobile profits (anyone?) getting up toward half?
@Al
Apple plays in the premium priced smart phone segment of the total cell phone market. That’s where there’s money to be made.
Yes, Nokia is big in the low end of the market. However, there’s little money to be made there.
The point is, the iCaled statement is valid. Apple is still a niche manufacturer. A very profitable niche manufacturer but a niche manufacturer nevertheless.
@Al
No one can ignore the iPhone. That’s hardly niche.
… cool it with the “Apple/niche” comments. Unless you play in the entire market, you are playing in a niche of the market. Apple plays in the profitable niche of the PC market. And doing very well at it, too. Dell, HP, Lenovo, Asus and a couple others try to play the entire market. Ooo … look at their huge profits! Not! Just because you are a niche player does not mean you are any less of a player than “the BIG boys”. Oh, and check out the market caps for conformation of that.
BTW: same goes for the Cell Phone market and the Tablet/NetBook market and the Game Console/Media Player market. Woo-HOO! ! !
… cool it with the “Apple/niche” comments. Unless you play in the entire market, you are playing in a niche of the market. Apple plays in the profitable niche of the PC market. And doing very well at it, too. Dell, HP, Lenovo, Asus and a couple others try to play the entire market. Ooo … look at their huge profits! Not! Just because you are a niche player does not mean you are any less of a player than “the BIG boys”. Oh, and check out the market caps for conformation of that.
BTW: same goes for the Cell Phone market and the Tablet/NetBook market and the Game Console/Media Player market. Woo-HOO! ! !
… cool it with the “Apple/niche” comments. Unless you play in the entire market, you are playing in a niche of the market. Apple plays in the profitable niche of the PC market. And doing very well at it, too. Dell, HP, Lenovo, Asus and a couple others try to play the entire market. Ooo … look at their huge profits! Not! Just because you are a niche player does not mean you are any less of a player than “the BIG boys”. Oh, and check out the market caps for conformation of that.
BTW: same goes for the Cell Phone market and the Tablet/NetBook market and the Game Console/Media Player market. Woo-HOO! ! !
… cool it with the “Apple/niche” comments. Unless you play in the entire market, you are playing in a niche of the market. Apple plays in the profitable niche of the PC market. And doing very well at it, too. Dell, HP, Lenovo, Asus and a couple others try to play the entire market. Ooo … look at their huge profits! Not! Just because you are a niche player does not mean you are any less of a player than “the BIG boys”. Oh, and check out the market caps for conformation of that.
BTW: same goes for the Cell Phone market and the Tablet/NetBook market and the Game Console/Media Player market. Woo-HOO! ! !
… cool it with the “Apple/niche” comments. Unless you play in the entire market, you are playing in a niche of the market. Apple plays in the profitable niche of the PC market. And doing very well at it, too. Dell, HP, Lenovo, Asus and a couple others try to play the entire market. Ooo … look at their huge profits! Not! Just because you are a niche player does not mean you are any less of a player than “the BIG boys”. Oh, and check out the market caps for conformation of that.
BTW: same goes for the Cell Phone market and the Tablet/NetBook market and the Game Console/Media Player market. Woo-HOO! ! !
… cool it with the “Apple/niche” comments. Unless you play in the entire market, you are playing in a niche of the market. Apple plays in the profitable niche of the PC market. And doing very well at it, too. Dell, HP, Lenovo, Asus and a couple others try to play the entire market. Ooo … look at their huge profits! Not! Just because you are a niche player does not mean you are any less of a player than “the BIG boys”. Oh, and check out the market caps for conformation of that.
BTW: same goes for the Cell Phone market and the Tablet/NetBook market and the Game Console/Media Player market. Woo-HOO! ! !
… cool it with the “Apple/niche” comments. Unless you play in the entire market, you are playing in a niche of the market. Apple plays in the profitable niche of the PC market. And doing very well at it, too. Dell, HP, Lenovo, Asus and a couple others try to play the entire market. Ooo … look at their huge profits! Not! Just because you are a niche player does not mean you are any less of a player than “the BIG boys”. Oh, and check out the market caps for conformation of that.
BTW: same goes for the Cell Phone market and the Tablet/NetBook market and the Game Console/Media Player market. Woo-HOO! ! !
My 2 cents on the niche issue.
Apple is not a niche player in the smart phone market share, it makes up over 20% .
that number is actually HIGHER as the iPhone is what Mossberg calls a new category the ‘SUPER smart phone’ or Pogue calls the ‘App Phone’. Most of the Symbian, blackberry phones called smartphones can actually be more accurately named ‘feature phones’ (some can’t even browse the web easily) and not true super smarts like the iPhone or the higher end Droids.
The super smart category of course also makes the most money.
@Al,
Today, about 20% of all computers bought by individuals are Macs.
Not very niche.
The term “niche market” is acquiring unreasonably negative connotations.
Please refer to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niche_market
“A niche market is the subset of the market on which a specific product is focusing; therefore the market niche defines the specific product features aimed at satisfying specific market needs, as well as the price range, production quality and the demographics that is intended to impact.
Every single product that is on sale can be defined by its niche market.”
The key to success appears to be the targeting of a *profitable* niche. Apple has clearly been highly successful in that endeavor – multiple times, in fact. In fact, I think that it can reasonably be said that four or five successful niches adds up to over $40B on hand with no debt.