It's not an easy market to break into by any means, but with LG, Samsung, and Pantech -- historically the value leaders in the market -- moving up the food chain in recent years, it seems like there could be room for another player or two.
But analysts noted that Best Buy has passed a period of easy market share growth that came after last year's collapse of archrival Circuit City, and may have misfired this holiday season by deciding not to compete more aggressively against its new direct competitors such as Wal-Mart and Amazon in favor of preserving profits.
Also, the tape is thin, with little size on the inside market, making it easy for the market to make quick jumps in both directions.
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And, smartphones give most of the target market easy access to a functional document scanner.
During the euphoria of a bull market it seems easy to picture oneself holding through a bear market, eagerly watching for it to end so the big gains will resume.
With numbers like that, it's easy to imagine the market will post significant gains.
It is almost too easy to project a market experience similar to 1981-1982.
Like Groupon, this secondary market is easy for others to replicate and build.
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Many imports from China have moved up-market from easy-to-produce products, such as footwear, to more sophisticated goods, such as computers and electronics.
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ETFs make it so easy to track a market, or a narrow sliver of it, that Wall Street has taken tracking to absurd lengths.
The market was largely indifferent to the figures, which were easy enough to instead allow the market to focus on the drama surrounding Lehman Brothers Holdings and the rest of the financial sector.
Without easy access to their largest market, the projects in China would nosedive in value.
Getting traction in the ultra-conservative college market is no easy feat.
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Selling caps and T-shirts in the home market might be easy enough for a team to handle itself, but pushing them into other markets requires a bigger infrastructure and more marketing clout.
Unfortunately, says Lyle, it is not clear how easy it will be to market T67 in Asia, which is a much less lucrative market than the U.S. Tularik is currently looking for European and Asian partners.
Far from being put off by the studios' financial disasters, a growing number of people think that film production represents an opportunity: a fast-growing business in which it is easy to undercut the clumsy market leaders.
At issue here is the fact that by the time it is easy to see what the market is doing and that everyone agrees with your theme, most investors have already taken action based on the theme at hand.
Meanwhile, as Pfizer had to conduct long safety studies to deal with the lung capacity issue, insulin shots got less painful as companies like Becton, Dickinson developed less painful needles and drug firms started to market insulin in easy-to-use pre-packaged "pen" devices.
If we could get the market straight so that customers were paying for it, I believe you could achieve at least as great improvements in health at a much lower cost and spread over a wider fraction of the population, but it is not easy to go from one market to the other.
Streaming video is not an easy thing to do, and when you are expected to cover every single new device that hits the market, there is not an easy solution.
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Tony says it is difficult to predict stock market returns but relatively easy to predict volatility.
It's easy enough to blame the bear market for some of the problems in Singapore and Hong Kong.
Reforming the nation's bond market isn't easy because of its complicated structure.
This is so obvious and easy to grasp outside the stock market.
While predicting market volatility is not easy, Goldcorp expects costs will rise in this quarter and expects that trend to continue throughout the year.
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But as recent events with CNOOC's bid for Unocal and Haier's bid for appliance giant Maytag have shown, it's not always easy to break into the Western market.
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