Smartphone Wars: Why Nokia Has Been Left Behind [View article]
DVL... Just watch Samsung run screaming from Google over the next couple of years. Android means Google services.
Services are where the money is in the future, a coupled device/services package. IBM showed the way. Devices are largely commoditised, noticed the number of Snapdragons there in the list? How does Samsung make money when the Chinese are producing subsidised Android devices at $100 with all the same capabilities as their flagship phones? South Korea can only devalue the Won so far.
Smartphone Wars: Why Nokia Has Been Left Behind [View article]
1: Wireless charging. It requires a coil of copper wire for the induction to work. The 820 gets round it by having a clip on cover which has the coil. The Samsung does the same. What that means is there is no wireless charging in the Samsung S4.
2: It isn't the specs stupid. Wanna know why the Samsung has 4 cores? Cos Android is a bloated, laggy piece of garbage. There's a reason most producers of droid devices are sticking to version 2.3, not upgrading to 4.
3: When are the numbers out? 4th? Looking for that little extra oomph?
4: Bigger screen... Mmmmmm. Maybe. But not in my pocket.
Gold may have had its "last hurrah," says SocGen, expecting $1,375/oz. by the end of the year thanks to an improving U.S. economy bringing with it a stronger dollar and higher interest rates. SocGen also notes the turn in professional sentiment as evidenced by heavy ETF redemptions. GLD -0.9% premarket. [View news story]
More on the Goldman downgrade of Apple (AAPL): Believing an imminent dividend hike/share repurchase could set a floor under the stock price, Goldman is less optimistic about the "timing and impact" of the next product cycle - needed if the stock is going to be an outperformer over the coming year. "The stock's upside potential should be more limited than we previously anticipated." Shares +0.25% premarket. [View news story]
*Think* about it. Who on earth do you think is selling to you at the top and buying from you at the bottom? Companies like Goldman Sachs or other similar operations perhaps?
Oh that would be unethical? Wake up and smell the coffee. You guys seriously shouldn't be anywhere near a market. Go buy tracker funds or you'll end up as their meat and drink.
Deposits over €100K at the Bank of Cyprus will be taxed at 62.5%, sources tell Reuters. The figure is far greater than officials originally indicated. Customers will get 37.5% of their deposits over the €100K threshold in bank shares while the remainder of their cash "may never be paid back."[View news story]
Some misunderstandings evident.
1. Money in your bank account is the bank's not yours. (Carr vs Carr) 2. When depositors get wiped out in a bank failure the €100k or so insurance is provided by the national government, not the bank, not the ECB, not the EU. 3. They'll likely take all or almost all the money and you get to claim on the government provided insurance. It may take a long time. 4. It's possible the government may also be insolvent, the insurance is then only worth the paper it's written on.
All in all, better not to invest in a bank likely to go bust.
Deposits over €100K at the Bank of Cyprus will be taxed at 62.5%, sources tell Reuters. The figure is far greater than officials originally indicated. Customers will get 37.5% of their deposits over the €100K threshold in bank shares while the remainder of their cash "may never be paid back."[View news story]
Numbers Or No Numbers, Nokia Is A Buy [View article]
Nokia did a test on it a year or two back. In most circumstances they couldn't generate enough power to run a dumb phone never mind a smart phone.
I think with one of their base models with the best battery life, in the sunniest parts of Africa they could almost but not quite make it work but for a smartphone it's just not happening.
"The big opportunity over the next two years is the low-end phone market," Gene Munster tells Bloomberg, expecting Apple's (AAPL) earnings growth to return in H2 and reiterating his Buy rating on the stock. Munster sees just a modest increase in the dividend - from $10.60 to $14 - and no bump in the buyback. Shares +0.3% premarket. [View news story]
Eh? More like an excellent opportunity to crush their own margins.
Both NOK and Samsung are practised at producing $100 phones.
The Chinese are being subsidized by their government to produce sub $100 phones.
The ECB will continue emergency liquidity assistance for Cypriot banks if requested, according to a statement on the central bank's website. In the meantime, markets recover from a minor morning panic as Eurogroup President Dijsselbloem walks back from comments which seemingly could have started a bank run on the Continent. S&P 500 -0.3%. [View news story]
Yeah... I'm taking my cash out anyway...
What they did with Cyprus is make deposits as risky as bonds, and deposits pay peanuts.
Smartphone Wars: Why Nokia Has Been Left Behind [View article]
Smartphone Wars: Why Nokia Has Been Left Behind [View article]
In fact I have a proportion of my portfolio which says they will.
Smartphone Wars: Why Nokia Has Been Left Behind [View article]
Lumias are sexy looking phones which are driving contemporary design. iPhones and Samsungs (and all their clones) look like 1990s warmups.
Smartphone Wars: Why Nokia Has Been Left Behind [View article]
p.s. Chilli always tastes better after a couple of days.
Smartphone Wars: Why Nokia Has Been Left Behind [View article]
Services are where the money is in the future, a coupled device/services package. IBM showed the way. Devices are largely commoditised, noticed the number of Snapdragons there in the list? How does Samsung make money when the Chinese are producing subsidised Android devices at $100 with all the same capabilities as their flagship phones? South Korea can only devalue the Won so far.
Smartphone Wars: Why Nokia Has Been Left Behind [View article]
2: It isn't the specs stupid. Wanna know why the Samsung has 4 cores? Cos Android is a bloated, laggy piece of garbage. There's a reason most producers of droid devices are sticking to version 2.3, not upgrading to 4.
3: When are the numbers out? 4th? Looking for that little extra oomph?
4: Bigger screen... Mmmmmm. Maybe. But not in my pocket.
Gold may have had its "last hurrah," says SocGen, expecting $1,375/oz. by the end of the year thanks to an improving U.S. economy bringing with it a stronger dollar and higher interest rates. SocGen also notes the turn in professional sentiment as evidenced by heavy ETF redemptions. GLD -0.9% premarket. [View news story]
More on the Goldman downgrade of Apple (AAPL): Believing an imminent dividend hike/share repurchase could set a floor under the stock price, Goldman is less optimistic about the "timing and impact" of the next product cycle - needed if the stock is going to be an outperformer over the coming year. "The stock's upside potential should be more limited than we previously anticipated." Shares +0.25% premarket. [View news story]
Oh that would be unethical? Wake up and smell the coffee. You guys seriously shouldn't be anywhere near a market. Go buy tracker funds or you'll end up as their meat and drink.
Nokia May Announce Earnings Any Day Now [View article]
Deposits over €100K at the Bank of Cyprus will be taxed at 62.5%, sources tell Reuters. The figure is far greater than officials originally indicated. Customers will get 37.5% of their deposits over the €100K threshold in bank shares while the remainder of their cash "may never be paid back." [View news story]
1. Money in your bank account is the bank's not yours. (Carr vs Carr)
2. When depositors get wiped out in a bank failure the €100k or so insurance is provided by the national government, not the bank, not the ECB, not the EU.
3. They'll likely take all or almost all the money and you get to claim on the government provided insurance. It may take a long time.
4. It's possible the government may also be insolvent, the insurance is then only worth the paper it's written on.
All in all, better not to invest in a bank likely to go bust.
Deposits over €100K at the Bank of Cyprus will be taxed at 62.5%, sources tell Reuters. The figure is far greater than officials originally indicated. Customers will get 37.5% of their deposits over the €100K threshold in bank shares while the remainder of their cash "may never be paid back." [View news story]
Will Nokia Revolutionize Text Messaging? [View article]
It's continuing with the concept of taking the map out of mapping and putting it everywhere.
Numbers Or No Numbers, Nokia Is A Buy [View article]
I think with one of their base models with the best battery life, in the sunniest parts of Africa they could almost but not quite make it work but for a smartphone it's just not happening.
Found the link:
http://nokia.ly/11J5gvh
The photo's an 820 btw.
Lots of rumours about NOK though. Good for publicity whether they're real or not.
"The big opportunity over the next two years is the low-end phone market," Gene Munster tells Bloomberg, expecting Apple's (AAPL) earnings growth to return in H2 and reiterating his Buy rating on the stock. Munster sees just a modest increase in the dividend - from $10.60 to $14 - and no bump in the buyback. Shares +0.3% premarket. [View news story]
Both NOK and Samsung are practised at producing $100 phones.
The Chinese are being subsidized by their government to produce sub $100 phones.
The ECB will continue emergency liquidity assistance for Cypriot banks if requested, according to a statement on the central bank's website. In the meantime, markets recover from a minor morning panic as Eurogroup President Dijsselbloem walks back from comments which seemingly could have started a bank run on the Continent. S&P 500 -0.3%. [View news story]
What they did with Cyprus is make deposits as risky as bonds, and deposits pay peanuts.