{"id":1846,"date":"2010-07-23T14:34:11","date_gmt":"2010-07-23T13:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=1846"},"modified":"2010-07-23T14:38:59","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T13:38:59","slug":"nokia-smartphone-reality-check-ka-ching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=1846","title":{"rendered":"Nokia Smartphone reality check, Ka-ching!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All the bad news,<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2010\/07\/22\/nokia_q2_2010_earnings\/\">Nokia smartphones dumb down profits<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/nokiaexperts.com\/nokia-releases-q2-2010-results-profits-market-share-flat\/?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+nokiaexperts+%28Nokia+Experts%29\">Nokia releases Q2 2010 results; profits down, market share flat<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.allaboutmeego.com\/news\/item\/11852_Nokia_Q2_2010_results-profits_.php\">Nokia Q2 2010 results &#8211; profits down but smartphone sales up<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>So lets do a  <strong>reality check<\/strong> on the facts;  Nokia profits are Down 40%, but are still making a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Profit_%28economics%29\">Profit<\/a>.  Which means they are in the <i>green<\/i> economically, and are making a Profit of \u00e2\u201a\u00ac221M Euros (285M$). But 40% less than last quarter, meaning that they are only making 60% of the profit they made last quarter, during the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/politics\/this-is-the-worst-recession-for-over-100-years-1605367.html\">worst recession in over 100 years<\/a> <strong>And everyone is complaining?  <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The only thing this tells me, is that a manufacture like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/\">Apple<\/a> who makes more profit on their iPhone 4, is ripping off their customers by charging a premium price for a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Smartphone\">Smartphone<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nokia.com\/\">Nokia<\/a> does not!<\/p>\n<h3>Reality Check cashed, Ka-ching, change your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allwords.com\/word-misperception.html\">misperception<\/a>!<\/h3>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All the bad news, Nokia smartphones dumb down profits Nokia releases Q2 2010 results; profits down, market share flat Nokia Q2 2010 results &#8211; profits down but smartphone sales up So lets do a reality check on the facts; Nokia<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=1846\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nokia Smartphone reality check, Ka-ching!<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,30,46,27,48,75,132,80,41,186,45,62],"tags":[654,686,432,699,690,673],"class_list":["post-1846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-economy","category-education","category-honesty","category-information","category-iphone","category-marketing","category-nokia","category-press","category-recession","category-statistics","category-telecommunications","tag-apple","tag-iphone","tag-lie","tag-marketing","tag-nokia","tag-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1846"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1863,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846\/revisions\/1863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}