{"id":20521,"date":"2010-07-27T06:54:38","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T04:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/?p=20521"},"modified":"2010-07-27T06:54:38","modified_gmt":"2010-07-27T04:54:38","slug":"verso-la-fine-dellera-blackberry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/2010\/07\/27\/verso-la-fine-dellera-blackberry\/","title":{"rendered":"Verso la fine dell&#8217;era Blackberry ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/07\/26\/business\/26views.html?_r=1&#038;partner=rss&#038;emc=rss\">Via Nyt<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>R.I.M.\u2019s share of the American smartphone market reflects this shift. It fell to 41 percent in the first quarter from 55 percent in the previous year, according to Gartner. The combined share held by iPhones and Android handsets rose to 49 percent, from 23 percent over the same period.<br \/>\nTrue, R.I.M.\u2019s sales in overseas markets are increasing, enabling it to hold its share of the global smartphone market more or less steady. But handset trends increasingly originate in the United States because of the growing importance of smartphone software.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nMoreover, R.I.M.\u2019s overseas push has been accompanied by a sharp fall in the average price of its handsets. While phones are priced differently overseas, the suspicion is the company is losing pricing power. Nokia\u2019s troubles, and the decline in its stock price, show that increasing volume doesn\u2019t matter if prices fall too fast.<\/p>\n<p>The BlackBerry maker\u2019s shares may appear cheap. They trade at 10 times estimated earnings for this fiscal year. Yet Apple and Google\u2019s dominance in apps means they are becoming de facto standards in the smartphone market. Technology companies that lose such wars often suffer shockingly fast profit declines. R.I.M. still has a shot. This fall, it is due to introduce a new operating system, which might help it fight back. But time is running short. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Nyt R.I.M.\u2019s share of the American smartphone market reflects this shift. It fell to 41 percent in the first quarter from 55 percent in the previous year, according to Gartner. The combined share held by iPhones and Android handsets rose to 49 percent, from 23 percent over the same period. True, R.I.M.\u2019s sales in &#8230; <a title=\"Verso la fine dell&#8217;era Blackberry ?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/2010\/07\/27\/verso-la-fine-dellera-blackberry\/\" aria-label=\"Per saperne di pi\u00f9 su Verso la fine dell&#8217;era Blackberry ?\">Leggi tutto<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,15],"tags":[443],"class_list":["post-20521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economia","category-mobile","tag-blackberry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20522,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20521\/revisions\/20522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}