In early March, we have been told that the former CEO of Apple John Sculley is going to conquer the mobile market in India. He has already created a mobile company and intends to release the first smartphone in the next month.
According to the publication, John Sculley is a cofounder of Inflexpoint, which formally registered in Singapore. It will act as investor ambitious project, but plans to produce smartphones under the brand name Obi Mobiles. Ajay Sharma will be headed by (Ajay Sharma), who had previously led a division of Micromax producing smartphones and the Indian subsidiary of the Taiwanese giant HTC. In a project to create affordable smartphones this year alone will invest about $ 20 million.
Ajay Sharma believes that now is the right time to enter the market, especially given the emergence of 3G in India and 4G/LTE. According to him, now the country's growing interest in mobile devices and telecommunications services, which have become more quality and cheap, and consequently - affordable.
"Unfortunately, today the share of smartphones in India is only 20%. Matter is that - by the standards of their high cost of local buyers. And now we have a great chance - to enter the Indian mobile market with smartphones Obi Mobiles, which represent the best value money "- said John Sculley.
It is reported that the first smartphone under the brand name Obi Mobiles in India will have in early May. Neither the cost nor the specifications are not specified. Presumably, the available devices are unlikely to their parameters can "compete" with the flagships of 2014.
Discussing the activities of John Scully, can not remember the ambitious project Newkia , created by former employees of the Finnish company Nokia. Founder of the company, which is positioned as the new Nokia, Zilliacus Thomas (Thomas Zilliacus) announced last fall that he was going to create a cohesive team of former employees of the Finnish company and start production of the original smartphone platform Android. But since then the project can not hear anything.
Incidentally, while the former CEO of Apple is going to conquer the mobile phone market in India, the U.S. company itself seems lost the battle for markets in developing countries. Experts have repeatedly said that the iPhone 5c failed to attract buyers from developing countries, in connection with which the warehouses gathering dust around three million iPhone 5c. This was confirmed by well-known domestic analyst Eldar Murtazin of Mobile Research Group.
Murtazin said that the Russian sellers overestimated demand for iPhone 5c and now in warehouses and store shelves are stored about 55,000 of these models. Moreover, only one unnamed Apple partner in Russia accumulated about 20,000 iPhone 5c. And sell quickly all these devices, given the sluggish demand, is unlikely. Related Products :
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