According to IDC, companies like Samsung and Lenovo are entering the market with lower cost models.
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To me this reinforces the view that the smartphone market is becoming increasingly competitive not only as it matures, but as more companies are bringing lower cost models to market.
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Apple faces challenges, especially against low-cost Android models that make up about 90% of the Chinese smartphone market.
This lowers the cost of models for niche markets, the only source of growth in saturated markets, such as Europe, America and Japan.
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Yes, lower cost entry level models would indeed enable them to gain more customers.
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And while no one knows who will actually pay for the new projectors, estimated at four times the cost of current models, the digital revolution could reverse the fortunes of the overbuilt, financially strapped American theater chains.
But that wouldn't be true if we consider alternative, more cost-effective delivery models.
According to this thinking, single nations are too small to maintain high-cost social-welfare models in the face of global competition.
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Used merchandise retailers have a much different inventory acquisition strategy than other retailers, and that translates into different cost structures and profitability models.
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Our biggest reservation is that it's slightly pricier than other machines with the same specs -- in fact, there are even a couple better-specced models that cost less.
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Vincentric supplied five-year cost estimates for 2007 models.
With innovations such as wireless fidelity, commonly known as wi-fi, and other low-cost technologies and business models that are now being explored, we should aim to provide cheap, fast, and eventually free access to the internet.
Until recently, the cost to store, access and analyze big data was so high that only government and a few business models could justify the cost.
Companies around the world are now busy developing low-cost devices and innovative business models to reach the world's poor.
Developing 50 (just a made up number) models, having production lines producing 50 models, holding stocks of all the parts required for 50 models, will cost more than a smaller lineup.
We would -- we've got plans to lower cost, to change purchasing models, address medical liability, insurance accountability, chronic and preexisting conditions, and access to affordable care for those with those conditions, insurance portability, expanded access -- but not doing it with creating more government, more bureaucracy, and more cost for the American taxpayer.
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These models are lower-cost product offerings designed to meet the needs of basic users.
This led to the acceptance of simple models to evaluate the cost of solar projects.
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Advances in TV advertising technology now allow for much more cost effective advertising investments and performance models.
But he adds dentists have been slow to adopt lasers in part because of the cost and in part because older models were much slower than drilling.
For some models it might be more cost effective to replace the engine with a remanufactured unit than to keep swapping it out a part at a time.
Aging planes are expected to be replaced by more fuel-efficient models, behind the initial cost of the airplane, fuel costs are the second largest cost associated with airplanes.
In a detailed analysis comparing diesel and gas versions of the same models, Vincentric calculated the cost of ownership over five years, assuming 15, 000 miles of driving annually.
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The trick is writing software and algorithms that tackle industry-specific problems, such as flight scheduling that keeps pilots below flying limits and financial models that account for the cost of currency exchanges.
Banks may even be willing to give away WebPad devices featuring pre-installed banking applications to its customers for free, while ISPs are looking at business models such as subsidizing the cost of the device to make the initial purchase price more attractive for consumers, he added.
When I talked to Agassi last Monday, he was his usual ebullient self, infusing the business case for Better Place with his mission of making electric cars as attractive to own as petroleum-powered models by eliminating the high cost and limited range of most current electric vehicles.
It cost half as much as the Democratic proposal in Congress, and using your economic analyst models, it would have created twice the jobs at half the cost.
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The advances meant it would burn 20% less fuel and cost 30% less to maintain than current models, Boeing promised.
In an industry where business models are very similar, the cost synergies of such a deal alone would be rich, making growth opportunities merely a bonus.
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Yet they face tough competition and must rely on cost cutting and a steady stream of new models to maintain profit margins that are already low.
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