Tuesday 24 November 2015

Apple Is Taking 94% Profits Of The Entire Smartphone Industry

stev-jobs-iphone-profitApple has been there in the smartphone market since 2007 and they’ve very easily managed to sell those highly overpriced iPhones to their “brand centric”, or I should say loyal customers, who have the courage and enthusiasm to stand in the line for almost 24 hours, just to buy the very first iPhone unit.
The Cupertino company’s market share accounted only 13.5% of the world’s total in the Q3 3015, yet they managed to bag 94% of the total profits in Q3 2015.
These figures have been provided by Canaccord Genuity, a Vancouver-based financial research company. But they do believe that their figures might not be accurate, the tsunami of low-cost smartphones taken into consideration. And Samsung has not been able to compete with apple and keep up with its legacy, with only 11% of the total profits for the Q3.
Canaccord Genuity did acknowledge the fact that their survey results might not be accurate:
Given the ramp of Chinese OEM smartphone volumes and particularly strong Q2/2015 smartphone market share gains for Huawei, we note our industry profit analysis excludes a large portion of this group of OEMs gaining an increasing share of the smartphone and handset market profits due to the lack of available and comparable profit metrics.
At this point of time, the war is between Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android army.
“There is that danger that you get trapped in the middle”, said Neil Mawston, executive director at Strategy Analytics. And brands like Microsoft and Xioami do rely on post-purchase revenues, generated through app purchases, providing services and accessories.

Tuesday 3 November 2015

Finally!! Annoying Candy Crush Requests Will Be Over Soon

mark-zuckerberg-cnady-crushOut of the two most frequent questions raised on the Facebook platform, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook answered one of them yesterday. After visiting the “incredible” Taj Mahal, he visited Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, one of the top engineering colleges of India.
Zuckerberg responded to a query of stopping the annoying Candy Crush invitations while he was addressing the students. During the promotion of the event, someone posted this to his post, “I don’t want any more invitations to Candy Crush. How can I stop it?”  It is not a surprise that this was the top voted question on his thread. (By the way, here’s how to stop the Candy Crush Requests)
As Zuckerberg replied,
This is where these Town Hall Q&As are really useful because I actually saw this question, that it was the top voted question on my thread. So I sent a message to the person who runs the team in charge of our developer platform and I said by the time I do this Town Hall Q&A, I think it would be good if we had a solution to this problem.
Millions of people who feel the same (at least I do) about the Candy Crush requests should be thankful of this student because Mark Zuckerberg has promised to find the solution for this nuisance. If you don’t know the gravity of this problem then see the pent up frustration of the public for yourself.
Zuckerberg said that his developer team did not look through into the matter as hitherto because they didn’t know Candy Crush requests were this big a problem. But seeing the response himself, he will now give it a top priority.
Addressing at the event the CEO of the world’s one of the most valuable brands reflected that he had committed every possible mistake during the early day of Facebook and advised the students to not be afraid of committing mistakes, and instead learn from them and work hard to be successful. He also talked about the net neutrality issue and why it was so important for his company to provide easy access to knowledge to everyone in this world.
Well, that being the second problem that he just addressed. The first one was the Facebook dislike or empathy button to which he obliged to the users who were so eager to have it on their web page.
King’s Candy Crush developers have not yet commented on Facebook’s plans.
So, on a personal note, I would like to thank Mr. Zuckerberg for his kind attention to both these topics and hope that his team comes up with a plan soon.