subject: Forbes: the war between the intelligent cell phones is not only confined to themselves [print this page] Forbes: the war between the intelligent cell phones is not only confined to themselves
Forbes online local time on June 21, although those apples, Google and the most fashionable design the RIM of the intelligent cell phones, but is not limited to the war of intelligent cell itself, there are many unknown fields.
Smart phones attracted everyone's attention, but many companies in the behind of the ecosystem. Among the people most likely to feel Verizon, AT&T, Britain's telecom operators and NTT, etc, it is the competition between each cell operators will be upgraded by 3G cell phone network ", the prices are different data services launched. But, given the scale of investment, and users are unlikely to use more than one kind of service, this is a particularly intense market competition, this also is the apple from AT&T and trading profits than apples.
Cell network access technology also exists. HP and Cisco hope in network infrastructure partake in the market. The manufacturer is favorable for customers, once adopted some technology, will be in for a long while still supporting this technology between. But the firms also disadvantage, because customers usually don't frequent upgrade network infrastructure, routers use period is longer, Cisco, and HP are in other markets.
Another competition field is smart phones ecosystem management of technology, IBM is the leader, Cisco, and HP is far behind the IBM. This area is quite high, the customer loyalty in charge of purchasing because chief information officer and is usually IT department manager. IBM initially focus on hardware, but in the past 20 years, has been gradually to the software and services. IBM's role is hardworking to sell the spade and jeans, rather than competing with them. Therefore, when. Com bubble burst, and from the server, as the effect of IBM.
IBM software business executives Steve Mills (Steve Mills) said, "Our main products are applied and management tools for Smartphone, application, and cell operators. We also provide support in cooperation with cell operators, help them out in the new service, we cooperate with banking machine banking sector, in cooperation with the tourism network booking field."
The next competition field is applied and components - including the CPU, memory, etc, due to price, rising cost, the field of companies face considerable pressure. Application developers face competition between countries and the Internet Company in 2000. Although for consumers, but against the development of firms. Component manufacturers, facing the continuing price pressure only by constantly improving production to reduce stress. Once the contract is change, for example, apple self-developed chip, their performance will be greatly affected.
