Proof that nothing is set in stone in this world, Nokia the world leader of the mobile telephone recorded its first loss for 10 years with a hole of 559 million Euros for the third quarters. Of course the economic crisis explains these bad results since sales of the cheap telephones has largely been eroded. However the arrival of powerful competition on Smartphones, the iPhone and Blackberry in the lead, also took part in creating this fall of income. Like all the manufacturers in the world, Nokia makes a good part of its profit on the most expensive products, and they were seen losing part of their customers especially to Apple. Although Nokia is very optimistic on its return to making profits, they will have to deal with their new competitors i.e. the mobile manufacturers who start en masse to adopt Androïd and to propose telephones with tight margins.
All this follows in the direction of the analysis of Gartner (they can be right also:)) that we spok