Thanks for the clarification, Al. I am still puzzled about the reporting side of things from non-manufacturer point of view. In other words, wouldn't you have to tell me about your company's product sales trends in order to get me to invest in your stock? A smart investor wouldn't be satisfied with just raw numbers showing an increase over last year, for example (or even increases over a longer period of time). Also, given how popular these devices are, I am surprised that there aren't a great deal of publications with reporters paid to track down and/or deduce sales figures from the information that is available.
--Ed On Mar 5, 3:55 am, Al Sutton <[email protected]> wrote: > Ed, > > Mobile 'phones suffer far more from feature differentiation than other > devices and with many manufacturers using the same OSes revealing exact > sales stats could put them at a competitive disadvantage. > > Take, for example, HTC, if they said that the Windows Mobile handset was > outselling their Android one by 3 to 1 other mobile manufacturers would > most likely back off Android handset development and increase work on > Windows Mobile because that's what's selling. > > The other products you mention have either little in the way of major > value add features (such as TVs and PCs) or are only be produced by one > manufacturer (e.g. iPhone, games consoles, video games), so there is > little point in, say Sony hiding it's sales figures for 32" LCD TVs > because their competitors already have sales stats covering most of the > range of sizes Sony offers showing which sizes are selling well, or > little point in Apple hiding iPhone sales because no-one else can sell a > phone with Mac OS iPhone on it. > > The closest thing to it is the video games industry which has ended up > with a mass of First person shooters, Racing games, and Sports tie-ins > because that's what sells, and original games like WiiFit and Little big > planet are few and far between. > > Al. > > > > Ed wrote: > > Mark, > > > I'm not sure that I understand this question in the context of global > > product markets. You can find the sales figures of TVs, computers, > > video games, gaming platforms, and nearly every other popular > > electronic device you can name (not to mention non-electronic goods > > like cars, airplanes, and lots of other stuff). My confusion is why > > the cell phone market is blanketed in secrecy when pretty much every > > other market has wide disclosure for sales figures as a basis for > > stock value. Of course, I notice that Apple is pretty open about > > iPhone sales, so maybe that is a clue. > > > I'm not interested in arguing, I'm just sincerely baffled by this. > > > --Ed > > > On Mar 4, 10:46 am, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> Ed wrote: > > >>> I'm baffled that sales figures are so hard to find in general. I would > >>> love to see the sales trends of G1 phones overall, in addition to per > >>> country breakdowns. > > >> Why would HTC want to give out this information? > > >> -- > >> Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy)http://commonsware.com > >> _The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development_ Version 2.0 Available! > > -- > > * Written an Android App? - List it athttp://andappstore.com/* > > ====== > Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the > company number 6741909. The registered head office is Kemp House, > 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, UK. > > The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not > necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's > subsidiaries. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
