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Technology Stocks : NOK... without the BS -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lahcim Leinad who wrote (117)	8/25/2012 4:12:23 PM
From: sense	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 580

Seems more likely to me, instead of the result of there being fewer products in the market shifting the tilt of the playing field in the way suggested, to advantage competitors inferior offerings, that one different result might be to tilt the field more toward what I've noted I expect is coming anyway... in a fight emerging over margins. The element of price in competition... seems lost... even while the disproportion in the market seems obvious. It appears to be developing into a contest in which each of the participants in the market works to preserve the massive disproportion in margins at the top end, hoping to win them... while the cooperation sustaining that ends up forcing the game into one that requires a "winner takes all" result. Somewhere between NOK's current predicament on the one hand, and AAPL's former ascendency, and Samsung's current, on the other... there might be a more optimal competition that doesn't require either betting the entire company on enabling the success of each succeeding generation... or just opting out of the competition entirely ? Of course, any strategy, viable or not... still depends in part on the quality of the effort in implementation... as a bad hand well played, or a good hand played poorly... each still suffer their limits.