{"id":640207,"date":"2013-01-25T20:16:15","date_gmt":"2013-01-26T01:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=306317"},"modified":"2013-01-25T20:16:15","modified_gmt":"2013-01-26T01:16:15","slug":"samsung-warns-that-competitive-pressures-will-decimate-smartphones-profitability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/640207","title":{"rendered":"Samsung warns that competitive pressures will decimate smartphones\u2019 profitability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/01\/25\/samsung-warning-smartphone-margins-306317\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"580\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/12\/bgr-best-smartphones-2012.jpg?w=650&amp;h=580&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Samsung Warning Smartphone Margins\" title=\"Smartphones\" \/><\/a><\/center>Remember the good old days when smartphones were seen as <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/10\/29\/apple-iphone-analysis-50-percent-gross-margins\/\">the most surefire way to make a quick profit<\/a>? Well, those days may be gone for good. As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/technology\/samsung\/9825948\/Samsung-warns-of-smartphone-slowdown.html\"><em>The Telegraph<\/em> notes<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/samsung\">Samsung<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=005930.KS&amp;ql=0\">005930<\/a>) put out a warning in its earnings guidance on Friday that may signal the end of sky-high smartphone margins. Overall, Samsung projects that &#8220;demand for smartphones in developed countries is expected to decelerate, while their emerging counterparts will see their markets escalate with the introduction of more affordable smartphones,&#8221; meaning that manufacturers will be competing fiercely with one another to see which one can move the most low-cost smartphones into emerging markets. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/01\/25\/samsung-warning-smartphone-margins-306317\/?utm_source=more-link&#038;utm_medium=feed%23more-306317%23more-306317\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading&#8230;<\/em><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/4SrFLItLCLA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the good old days when smartphones were seen as the most surefire way to make a quick profit? Well, those days may be gone for good. As The Telegraph notes, Samsung (005930) put out a warning in its earnings guidance on Friday that may signal the end of sky-high smartphone margins. Overall, Samsung projects [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-640207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}