{"id":257,"date":"2005-05-17T12:31:16","date_gmt":"2005-05-17T10:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/wp_1\/index.php\/archive\/mobile-phones-vs-ipods\/"},"modified":"2005-05-17T12:31:16","modified_gmt":"2005-05-17T10:31:16","slug":"mobile-phones-vs-ipods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/2005\/05\/mobile-phones-vs-ipods\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile phones vs. iPods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple faces increasing competition from mobile-phone companies integrating MP3 players into handsets &#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bill Gates sees mobile phones overtaking MP3s as the top choice of portable music player, and views the raging popularity of Apple&#8217;s iPod player as unsustainable [&#8230;] &#8220;As good as Apple may be, I don&#8217;t believe the success of the iPod is sustainable in the long run&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>note also that<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gates admitted that Microsoft had made mistakes in the past, for example with the first version of its XBox games console. <strong>&#8220;The consumer is always unpredictable. In principle, you can only throw products onto the market and then learn from your mistakes&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Interessant ist auch diese Passage aus dem Interview:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>FAZ: Das Gesch&auml;ft von Microsoft steht seit langem auf drei starken S&auml;ulen: dem Betriebssystem Windows f&uuml;r Personalcomputer, Software f&uuml;r Server und der B&uuml;rosoftware Office. Andere Sparten verblassen dagegen bis heute, ob Mobilfunksoftware, betriebswirtschaftliche Standardsoftware, Internet oder Videospiele. Werden Sie es jemals schaffen, eine vierte starke S&auml;ule zu haben?<\/p>\n<p>Gates: Unsere M&auml;rkte sind einfach sehr unterschiedlich. So stark wie unsere drei gro&szlig;en Sparten wird daher wahrscheinlich keines unserer anderen Gesch&auml;fte jemals sein. Dennoch: Das Gesch&auml;ft mit Standardsoftware kann noch sehr, sehr gro&szlig; werden. Und das Mobilfunk- und Taschencomputergesch&auml;ft kann im Vergleich zu heute um einiges zulegen und dabei ziemlich gute Gewinne abwerfen. Und vergessen Sie nicht,<br \/>\n<strong>da&szlig; viele unserer jungen Gesch&auml;fte f&uuml;r dramatischen Fortschritt in ihren M&auml;rkten sorgen<\/strong>, ob es jetzt Software f&uuml;r Autos oder die Videospielesparte sind.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230; und gerade in diesen Bereichen wird (&auml;hnlich wie im Digital Home) noch einiges passieren, insofern ist eine Innovationsstrategie die auch (noch) unprofitable Felder bearbeitet <strong>smart<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>read  more at <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/tech_microsoft_gates_dc\">Yahoo! News<\/a> und bei der <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faz.net\/s\/Rub3E022E9C248F4E4A826CFF71F3383A63\/Doc~E889D9E3B440E4477BD9E2E6A01E1E57F~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent.html#top\">FAZ<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple faces increasing competition from mobile-phone companies integrating MP3 players into handsets &#8230; Bill Gates sees mobile phones overtaking MP3s as the top choice of portable music player, and views the raging popularity of Apple&#8217;s iPod player as unsustainable [&#8230;] &#8220;As good as Apple may be, I don&#8217;t believe the success of the iPod is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,11,4,6],"tags":[15,146,26,24,114,66,147,144],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}