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Cell Phones Becoming Profitless

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the imploding-markets dept.

saccade.com writes "EE Times has a fascinating article on how electronics companies are being sucked into a profitless spiral by the cell phone market. More and more of the small consumer gadgets are being folded into the phone: camera, music player, PDA, GPS, etc. So the market for non-phone gadgets is slowly going away as the phone picks up more functions. However, consumers don't buy most phones; they are given away (or sold very cheap) by the service providers as hooks to get people to sign up for mobile service. So the service providers are demanding (and getting) rock-bottom prices for fancy phones they can give away, and the micro chip companies are forced into brutal competition for a market that is shrinking into a single commodity gadget, the phone."

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  3. Re:Just as it should be. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  4. phone + dildo = Phildo by dillee1 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    how about this?
    http://www.textually.org/textually/archives/002311 .htm

  5. Re:Crossing the Chasm by Rethcir · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Dennis Miller: I don't wanna go on a RANT here but America's foreign policy makes about as much sense as Beowolf having sex with Robert Fulton at the first Battle of Antietam. I mean when a neo-conservative defenstrates it's like Raskalnakov filibuster dioxymonohydrostinate.

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