Johann Low

日曜日, 4月 24, 2005

[Creative finally concedes defeat./ Jpn test ENDED!!!!!]

Finally,our big cannon Uncle Sim's inferior deformed mutants clones decides to humble themselves before the mighty throne of Apple's ipods and concede defeat as can see from the below link and some extracts. With inferior arsenal like Zen and Nomads and wanting to take on Apple's angelic and halo ipods armed with innovation,style,ease of use and quality, its almost suicidal.

I know some of our peasant consumers are blind but I think the majority are not. How many people do u see hanging a plastic colorful brick ard their necks? In fact these days, I see so many people sporting typical the white ipod earphones in mrt and almost everywhere. Of cos I still see a fair share of people wearing the cloned white earphones from Creative.

Anyway, I had my dreaded Jpn test yesterday afternoon. The paper was not as hard as described by my friend,only to realise my sensei had fine tuned the paper to my class's level...which is quite below the intended level. In other words, it was simpler lah! As usual, I was quite panicky and forgotten some of the most commonly used kanji. But I managed to retrieve them back later.

I finished the test in abt 1 hr or so. While going through the paper, several students were asked to go to the next room to take the oral exam. I took mine at around 3.35 and I came out at 4.00pm! My classmates said,"Wah u took the longest leh" I did not even realise I took more than 20 min. I believe most of the time spent in the room was in thinking what to say than saying what I thought. haha.

Anyway, we took a class photo after the test. I was planning to leave already but I was held up awhile cos I was paying for the fees for next sem. So my sensei managed to catch me and we had a class photo session.

I managed to take a look at the Advance 1 level's test paper. Fcuk man, I cld hardly understand.

http://www.asiaone.com/st/st_20050423_313128.html

CREATIVE Technology's net profit for the three months ended March 31 plunged by a worse-than-expect- ed 72 per cent to US$15.9 million (S$26.4 million), due largely to a price war in the MP3 player market.

Creative had to use a 'very competitive pricing strategy' during the quarter to match Apple's price cuts, said Creative chairman Sim Wong Hoo during a media conference call.

'The strategy is to drive market share. The whole market is at an explosive stage. There are a lot of young users. We need to get them early...if we lose them to somebody else, we will lose them for life.'

Creative's dismal earnings were in stark contrast to Apple's sterling results for the quarter ended March 26, which leapfrogged even the most optimistic analysts' forecasts, rising by six times to US$290 million.

Analysts said that Creative is sacrificing profitability in its pursuit of market share - but it will still have to be content with playing second fiddle to Apple.

'It is almost impossible to displace Apple, so Creative will have to contend with other players such as iRiver and Samsung for second place,' said Mr Sim.

Mr Sim seems to have conceded the dominant position to Apple, which commands a 60 to 70 per cent market share compared with Creative's estimated 22 to 25 per cent. 'We are working hard to be a strong No. 2 player in the market,' he said.

STILL IN THE GAME

'We are working hard to be a strong No. 2 player in the market. The strategy is to drive market share. The whole market is at an explosive stage. There are a lot of young users. We need to get them early...if we lose them to somebody else, we will lose them for life.' -- MR SIM WONG HOO of Creative.

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