Perspectives on the business world

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-184477612012-02-16T02:13:55.204-08:00Perspectives on the business worldJust your average next door guy's view on the world around him - Mergers and Acquisitions, Stock Market, Business & Product Strategy, and anything else that catches my eye ;)Rohit Darhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13473849973733859409noreply@blogger.comBlogger101100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18447761.post-46520938207885592962007-06-26T23:55:00.000-07:002007-06-27T10:57:59.822-07:00Why did Apple need I Phone?

If you were wondering why did Apple enter the Phone market when it was the king of the music players. Here are the two articles that may explain why?Apple is the leader in Music Player with almost 70% market shareApple Sells 100 Millionth I PodBut the cell phone manufacturers will not leave them alone and would have chipped into their customer base.In 2006 (1 year), Cell phone makers sold more

Rohit Darhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13473849973733859409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18447761.post-83910577369519645642007-06-25T16:52:00.000-07:002007-06-27T00:31:18.524-07:00I Phone: Does it belong in my pocket?

I think a better title to this post should be "I Phone - Will it pinch (pun intended:) my pocket (wallet)". So the wait on the most awaited consumer product of this century - may be all time - is here. This is not an I-Phone review as I sadly :( don't own the phone. It is more a review from business perspective a preface to my investing post - Will Apple stock zoom up on I Phone release?.Lets do

Rohit Darhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13473849973733859409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18447761.post-42034911069144932512007-03-06T18:42:00.000-08:002007-08-07T10:39:24.148-07:00Google: Don't be evil?

"Don't be evil".Google has tried to make "Don't Be Evil" a central pillar of their identity. Now, the media is making Google out to be an evil corporation steamrolling the IP rights of the innocent small publishers and writers.After almost saturating the online content websites, some time back Google started cataloging the off-line content. This raised the some furor, but the things dies down.

Rohit Darhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13473849973733859409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18447761.post-58417845430544816402007-02-03T18:02:00.000-08:002007-06-27T00:15:48.373-07:00I-Phone Target segments: Multimedia (MP3/PSP) device

Traditionally, there has been many separate segments based on application1> Music (MP3 Players)2> Video (PMP, PSP)3> Gaming (PSP, Nintendo DS)Recently we have seen convergence devices. Additionally, as we are analysing I-Phone, we can safely categorize this segment to the following sub-segments1> Music/Video (MP3, MP3+Video)2> Gaming (Portable Gaming Console)3> Video only devices (PMP)Now let me

Rohit Darhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13473849973733859409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18447761.post-22836347296380583072007-01-20T16:56:00.000-08:002007-02-12T23:32:41.683-08:00I-Phone Target segments: Business Users

Let's look at the second potential target segment for I-Phone. To start we will first try to understand the main needs of this segment as of today*.1> Email/PIM: Ideally these are two different features, but as both of these are hygiene factors for any business phone. Today, it will be stupid to call a phone a business phone without these feature. Based on initial details, I think I-Phone passes

Rohit Darhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13473849973733859409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18447761.post-33605641049752837602007-01-15T14:45:00.000-08:002007-02-12T23:34:13.330-08:00I-Phone Target segments: Multimedia phone consumers

The first target customer segment of I Phone is multimedia phone customer segment.Multimedia phone customer segment provides the most important new customer acquisition opportunity for Apple. There are two main subsegments here based on most prominent multimedia application.1> Music Phone:Based on current phone sales, multimedia music phone segment is very small compared to both multimedia camera

Rohit Darhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13473849973733859409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18447761.post-6234882092562504352007-01-12T17:37:00.000-08:002007-02-12T23:33:40.583-08:00Apple I-Phone: Target segments

So, whom is this product targeted. We can definitely leave out the low cost low margin lower end of the market. The target segments for this product "in US" are high margin segments1> Multimedia focused phone consumers2> Business users 3> Multimedia (MP3/PSP) deviceI will discuss apples' product positioning on these segments in separate posts.

Rohit Darhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13473849973733859409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18447761.post-77906444110258893992007-01-10T14:33:00.000-08:002007-06-27T00:16:55.394-07:00Apple I-Phone: The latest marketing ploy by the new dark side

I always considered Microsoft the dark side even though I have been a PC/Windows user for the last 13 years. The last time I used an apple product for serious work ( besides playing with a mac/i-pod in Apple store) was about 12-13 years ago.FLASH BACK:Jan 1994: I heard everyone say great things about the new Mac lab at the computer senter in IIT Bombay. People said "It was not like Linux/Unix.

Rohit Darhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13473849973733859409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18447761.post-1158208197437129972006-09-13T21:29:00.000-07:002006-09-13T21:29:57.453-07:00AHA!!! the ease of modern technology

Though I am a generation above the generation what I will call the internet generation, I can't help but think about the ease that modern technology has created for us. Here I am traveling in a local train sending a blog by writing an email to my blog site from my T-Mobile MDA.On the other hand, technology has made us dependent on it. A couple of months back I was without a cell phone for about a

Rohit Darhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13473849973733859409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18447761.post-1130642025739069242005-10-29T20:10:00.000-07:002006-03-08T14:39:53.653-08:00Introduction

I got sucked into the blogging world during the Winter 2005. I was on an exchange quarter at HEC Paris and wanted to keep my friends back in US and India updated on my experiences. This blog will be my perspective on the world around us. I should say around me because I will be writing about things that interest me :- Mergers and Acquisitions, Stock Market, Corporate Strategy, Cricket, Bridge.

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