{"id":8854,"date":"2014-10-07T13:39:53","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T13:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8854"},"modified":"2014-10-07T13:39:53","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T13:39:53","slug":"samsung-plans-to-return-to-profitability-by-using-nokias-old-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/10\/samsung-plans-to-return-to-profitability-by-using-nokias-old-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung plans to return to profitability by using Nokia&#8217;s old strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/ewanspence\/2014\/10\/07\/samsung-profits-down-sixty-percent-no-recovery-plan\/\">Samsung&#8217;s profits are down<\/a> (60% year on year for Q3), because nobody is buying their high-end models and the average selling price per handset is dropping.?Its solution is to&#8230;. sell more low-end handsets and promote the Note 4 heavily. That would be the Note 4 that they had to cut the launch price of because of the competition from the iPhone 6 Plus.<\/p>\n<p>Samsung?is doing the same thing Nokia tried (which failed),?that Palm tried (and failed), that [the standalone] Motorola tried (and failed), that Ericsson tried (and failed).<\/p>\n<p>What makes?the South Korean company think they&#8217;re any different?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung&#8217;s profits are down (60% year on year for Q3), because nobody is buying their high-end models and the average selling price per handset is dropping.?Its solution is to&#8230;. sell more low-end handsets and promote the Note 4 heavily. That would be the Note 4 that they had to cut the launch price of because of the competition from the iPhone 6 Plus. Samsung?is doing the same thing Nokia tried (which failed),?that Palm tried (and failed), that [the standalone] Motorola tried (and failed), that Ericsson tried (and failed). What makes?the South Korean company think they&#8217;re any different?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Samsung plans to return to profitability by using Nokia's old strategy","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[2235,25],"tags":[2217,5128,2512,2644,281],"class_list":["post-8854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-android-pocket-computers-and-phones","category-link-log","tag-android","tag-cliff-theory","tag-galaxy","tag-profit","tag-samsung","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-2iO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8855,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8854\/revisions\/8855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}