Cell Phone Sales Decline… Recession, or Boredom?
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MobileCrunch, a web site part of the TechCrunch network, is reporting data that supports a trend of declining cell phone shipments in the United States. Both Motorola and Nokia, along with several other suppliers, have been scaling back their cell phone shipments, either because they currently aren’t selling enough of them, or because they’re expecting people to be buying less of them in the coming months. Either way you look at the data, the United States isn’t buying as many cell phones anymore.
Source: MobileCrunch
The data doesn’t really give any indications as to what the reasons are for the decline. Are consumers buying less phones because they already have a good phone that they like — how many people do you know don’t already have a cell phone? Could the current recession be a problem? Expensive cell phone upgrades might not be getting purchased because of the credit crunch and the overall less spending money consumers have.
Or, perhaps another problem exists. Let me ask you this, whats the benefit of buying a BlackBerry over an iPhone? There’s not much to work with. A lot of cell phones today have fallen victim to a lack of differentiation and consumers might be uninterested in the stupid amount of options that all phones seem to have.
The BlackBerry today is essentially the same BlackBerry from last year. Add in some cool features such as MP3 capabilities and a touchscreen, and we have a “new product.” Maybe people are happy with their old phones. I know I am.
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