Nokia's Reasons of Market Share Decrease

Software: Nokia, Ericsson, Sony Ericsson, Panasonic, Siemens AG and Samsung came up with jointly owned proprietary Operating System for mobiles that had captured 65% worldwide share with 77.3 million smartphone shipment in 2007.

Threats: Nokia phones once dominated the phone market. However, it failed to see the threats from smartphone and the new phone manufacturer, and thus the brand Nokia faced serious strike and almost disappeared until recent.

Apple is one corporation that everyone is frighten of, they are a huge threat in the mobile market. Apple is one of the fastest growing corporations with a 3-year average for Revenue Growth is at 52%, while their Profit Growth is at 70% (Hein, B.). With all of their acknowledgement from the world, they are quite different then Nokia. One of the differences between these two corporations is their product range. Nokia has a huge range of products; this is because they date back to 1865, so they continually adding more and more to their collection (Nokia). Since Nokia has a large range of products it give consumers more of a choice in their discussion making process. Whereas Apple only has been around since 1977, so they only have

Nokia’s aggressive strategy to dominate mobile communication cluster would be the main reason how Nokia could become a world leader in the sector among other reasons. Nokia’s passion for mobile communication industry was great enough to give up more than 40% of its revenue in is pre-owned communication industry to concentrate only in mobile communications. Nokia was also lucky enough to see the possibility of mobile communication early enough to predominate the industry and prevent any competition from

Throughout 2007 – 2015 these companies have lost and gained market share. For example, Nokia Corp was the market leader in Germany for the smartphone industry in years 2007 to

In the second quarter of 2007, Motorola had shipped 35.5 million mobile handsets whereby Nokia shipped 100.8 million handsets. Nokia emerged as a leader in the global mobile phone industry, holding a market share of 38.0 percent, by the 2nd quarter of 2007.

Reason for Nokia failure is on one side that Apple redefined smart phones with touch screen and Blackberry with email, and on the other side, Android proved that software matters more than hardware. Nokia was slow to respond to these trends. In 2008, brands like Samsung, HTC, and Sony found roots to extend their market. Samsung's Android phones are user friendly and budget friendly too. When every

Even if users could ignore the OS, the the hardware features which Nokia was rolling out were quiet late as compared its major competitors Samsung and Apple. Nokia seemed to be lagging in the race. Where Samsung from nowhere entered the race and focused on innovation as its core competence to gain the market share, Nokia was very late to realize this fact. Samsung did everything right to focus only on product innovation and started competing with Apple in all product lines from smartphones to tablets, but Nokia failed to develop a focused device

In 2005 the Nokia sales in western countries of Europe and in America were largely poised at certain point, the company was not making any profit in these regions. The North American market creates roundabout 8% of sales for the company, Nokia was losing its grip on Europe, and the market share was dropping in from 42% in 2004 to 38% in 2005. The only opportunity for Nokia in this case was to develop rich market ground in developing countries.

The Finnish giant was sitting on its laurels and they have never thinking about improving continuously. They were only focusing on their internal strategies rather than on the customers, they failed to evolve and compete. This has led them to be decreased, after the smart phone industry become known and famous. This is an example of lack of evolution, even Sony, Motorola, Ericsson has failed due to lack of evolution. All these companies were at their prime, they have the technology, they have first mover advantage, but just because they didn’t continuously improve and neither did they evolve, they have been almost gone out of their industries and market

This analysis will focus on the smartphone industry given that the global market, in terms of the major players involved and on the dynamics of the smartphone industry and the factors, that affects the change over the conditions of competition.

The alliance between Nokia and Microsoft provides many benefits to both organizations. Nokia’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Stephen Elop initiates the alliance with Microsoft in order to grow after Nokia was losing market share to Google and Apple. The alliance was also appealed to Microsoft, since they were looking into the future of the smartphone industry and there particular industry. The current standing was that Nokia was still the market leader, even though they were losing ground to the competition due to the aging technology. At the time of the alliance was announced it is clear that both firms needed each other. Microsoft brought capital to inject into the alliance and technological advancements, while Nokia brought market share and brand reputations.

Microsoft is the most established software giant and Nokia is the company that is the icon for electronic and communication equipments. Microsoft had a partnership with the computer manufacturer IBM that made the software of Microsoft from DOS to modern Windows 8 famous and most used. The same underlying principle of symbiosis has been used inn this alliance. There are many reasons why Microsoft had to enter the cell phone industry. Arch Rival Apple came out with the iPhone and revolutionized the mobile world. Though the gadget was not a direct competitor, Microsoft was out of a huge potential market, namely the mobile segment.

In spite of the decrease in market share, Nokia has much room to grow with their newfound alliance with Microsoft (Microsoft News Center, 2011). The collaboration with Microsoft will be used as a leverage to entice students with the Windows 8 OS platform. Furthermore, an improved management to meet consumer demands, and increased promotional campaigns to increase brand awareness.

EV: Generally, the threat of substitutes is low in the smartphone industry as there are not definite products that can readily substitute the smartphone. Consumers rely heavily on Smartphone and would not be able to find a close substitute that has all the function of a mobile phone. Furthermore, Nokia is a long and established company with many loyal customers. These people may continue to stay faithful to Nokia and are hence less resistant to change. Also, the perceived level of product