Month: October 2013

The South Korean company LG has announced “The start of OLED flexible screen phones”

As shown in the picture above LG has already displayed their curved Televisions which are going to be soon implanted in our smartphones. LG has said ” The advantages of this tech is the screen is bendable and unbreakable.” Now that sounds pretty amazing for some of us because we all know a lot of people drop their phones and have their screens all broken. Now we won’t have to worry about dropping our cellphones because of this technology.

This innovation and invention that LG and Samsung has been working on will be a huge change in the market system. People will start changing phones to these because we all love new technology. It will be just like when touch screen phones came out, where the market has changed everything to be smartphones instead of 2g phones. It may have a side effect as no one knows how effective it will be.

(Research firm IHS Display predicts the global flexible display industry will see dramatic growth in the coming years, becoming a $1.5 billion (£900 million) market by 2016 and exceeding $10 billion by 2019.)
This reading shows how effective the OLED curved screens will be in the later years

This will allow the “Forgotten” LG company, which has been falling behind in the smartphone race to catch up and even exceed other company’s.

After watching this video made me realize how things were going to change in the business market. The whole feel of OLED curve would be a realistic and even eye catching to all audiences.

The Chromebook was first notified in May 2011 and started shipping out in June 2011. The chromebook were first made by Acer inc. and Samsung. It was not a great sale as they first started selling it. Then Leveno, Hewlett packet, and Google started pitching in on it in early 2013. The chromebook is primarily sold online by Google themselves and the other company’s that are related to the chromebook. As the new laptop became more popular as prices were low, the schools were the top consumers that would buy these laptops as a bunch.

Now, then these laptops were at first reviewed really bad by the first users. They said that the chromebooks were useless and even pricey for a laptop that did not work on par with the other laptops such as macbook and samsung laptops. They had keyboard features that people weren’t used to. As of right now Google has improved their features on the chromebook which got really nice reviews by users.

For some people Google chrome is a web browser and for some google chrome is a operating system. Google is smart by having it’s own app store implanted in the chromebook, and that people are starting to pick the chromebook because of this function that they have put in to it. Us, the consumers are familar with apps on our smartphones, macs, and tablets. Another amazing thing is that the chromebook is irregularly cheap compared to the new laptops that are coming out! The new chromebook is suppose to be coming out in November 2013 and they are $300! This is a eye opener because the tablets that currently on the market are easily over 300 dollars.

As a company that is elastic will really have demand for more of these fast, up to date technology. As we learned in class this would be in between of Cost leadership strategy and Differentiation strategy. Google is trying to get ahead by having low costs and even unique attributions in the chromebook.

http://gigaom.com/2013/05/22/how-google-plans-to-rule-the-computing-world-through-chrome/

http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/chromebook-week-of-hell/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromebook

Netflix gave a solid earnings report, but why is the stock price falling down instead of going up? Netflix (NFLX) reported strong earnings per share of $0.49 or 345% higher than the prior-year quarter’s $0.11 per share.  They met 2nd quarter 2013 expectations on revenues and beat expectations on earnings per share.  Compared to the same quarter last year, revenue expanded significantly. As I said, “Why is the stock price falling instead of going up?” Well from showings Netflix has lost about 800,000 subscribers as prices steadily grew in. The outlook suggests Netflix has been unable to contain a subscriber over a price increase and aborted plan to force subscribers into separate streaming and DVD services.

In class we learnt about customer relationships and how it is put into two different categories Physical and Mobile. Netflix has been too careless of taking care of their customers, which led to downfall of subscribers. Because Netflix is more of a internet wise company sure it would be harder to control their subscriber count on a level they would like. If they could just maintain a healthy customer service with a affordable price Netflix will have no problem having higher earning reports.

http://mashable.com/2011/10/24/netflix-stock-earnings/

http://www.markettiminguniversity.com/stock-market-news-why-is-netflix-stock-going-down/

http://bizblog.cosmobc.com/2012/12/07/reasons-netflix-merge-amazon/