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Monday, May 30, 2005
Japanese manufacturers in trouble
Some signs:
- Toshiba: left China
- Mitsubishi: left Europe
- Nokia, Motorola and others: moving into Japan
- Global UMTS/W-CDMA standard: more competition
- NEC and Matsushita: posted losses
I believe they will come back, possibly with a vengeance, and my advice to them (not that anyone will listen) is to differentiate into low-end and mid-range. Japan is feature-crazy, but that doesn't mean all parts of the world are.
Japan mobile makers face challenges at home, abroad - Yahoo! News
- Toshiba: left China
- Mitsubishi: left Europe
- Nokia, Motorola and others: moving into Japan
- Global UMTS/W-CDMA standard: more competition
- NEC and Matsushita: posted losses
I believe they will come back, possibly with a vengeance, and my advice to them (not that anyone will listen) is to differentiate into low-end and mid-range. Japan is feature-crazy, but that doesn't mean all parts of the world are.
Japan mobile makers face challenges at home, abroad - Yahoo! News
