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Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Accessories a bigger business than smartphones
I understand why analysts and media tend to hype smartphones so much: They are the very latest news in terms of mobile phone technology, being the most advanced phones available, supporting the most advanced (and in some cases even bleeding edge; check out e.g. Samsung with 10+ Mpixel cameras, phone-based speech-to-text etc) features that will/might also be available in "lesser" phones later, and by then those features have become non-news. Also, analysts and journalists are gadget freaks like everybody else, and are even paid to be gadget freaks.
Mobile Phone Accessories Generating More Revenue than Smartphones in 2007 indicates that accessories is a more viable business than smartphones in the future. The note doesn't say for mass market phones (even though that's my bet), rather smartphones, but I think that again tells what kind of skewed world analysts and journalists live in.
Mobile Phone Accessories Generating More Revenue than Smartphones in 2007 indicates that accessories is a more viable business than smartphones in the future. The note doesn't say for mass market phones (even though that's my bet), rather smartphones, but I think that again tells what kind of skewed world analysts and journalists live in.
