{"id":11060,"date":"2008-02-13T12:09:14","date_gmt":"2008-02-13T09:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2008\/02\/13\/how-often-do-you-change-your-mobile-vendor\/"},"modified":"2008-02-13T12:09:14","modified_gmt":"2008-02-13T09:09:14","slug":"how-often-do-you-change-your-mobile-vendor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2008\/02\/13\/how-often-do-you-change-your-mobile-vendor\/","title":{"rendered":"How often do you change your mobile vendor?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I was reading this post about Mobile World Congress<\/a> over at Web Worker Daily<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 This paragraph got me thinking:<\/p>\n

At January\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Macworld show, Apple CEO Steve Jobs cited data from NPD showing that the iPhone already has 20 percent of the smartphone market after one year, and that Apple is selling 20,000 iPhones per day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How often do you change your mobile?\u00c2\u00a0 And how often do you change your mobile phone vendor?\u00c2\u00a0 Are you a fan of one particular brand or do you like trying each and every one of them?<\/p>\n

Mobile market is measured in billions of users<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 And these users can be pretty dynamic about their devices and the choice of vendors.\u00c2\u00a0 Mobile phone is something very easily replaceable.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s not like a house, or a car, or even a laptop computer. The thought of how dynamic the market is boggles the mind.\u00c2\u00a0 One day you the king of the mountain, and the a couple of months later they don’t know your name. But then again you can get it back before the end of the year…<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

I was reading this post about Mobile World Congress over at Web Worker Daily.\u00c2\u00a0 This paragraph got me thinking: At January\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Macworld show, Apple CEO Steve Jobs cited data from NPD showing that the iPhone already has 20 percent of the smartphone market after one year, and that Apple is selling 20,000 iPhones per day. … Continue reading How often do you change your mobile vendor?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,62],"tags":[1968,1141,1601,1143,2416],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-11060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology","tag-business","tag-mobile","tag-phones","tag-telephony","tag-thoughts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15367,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/02\/android-global-market-share-is-at-48-percent\/","url_meta":{"origin":11060,"position":0},"title":"Android global market share is at 48%","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"August 2, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Canalysis did a world-wide study of mobile markets and published their results. \u00a0Make sure to read the whole article - there are many other numbers and trends. 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