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A Problem of Plenty?

Thu, 19 Apr 2007 16:00:05 -0700

Earlier this morning, Nokia announced its quarterly earnings, and the analysts celebrated the fact that the Finnish giant sold 91.1 million phones, putting some serious distance between itself and the beleaguered Motorola. That’s a gain of 21 percent when compared with the first quarter of 2006. And yet, the profits declined by 6.6%, as the new phone sales came from emerging markets where people prefer budget phones, and not the multimedia computers.

Similarly, Seagate, the Scotts Valley, Calif.-based disk drive maker saw its revenues grow, but profits tanked. “Seagate just delivered the industry’s first $3 billion quarter, and 30% growth over our year-ago quarter,” said Bill Watkins, Seagate’s chief executive officer. And yet the profits declined 22 percent.

Do you think that this peculiar problem of plenty - where the market share growth isn’t translating into profits - is peculiar to Nokia and Seagate or do you think this is a more widespread malaise?

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Wed, 19 Jul 2006 11:25:00 -0700

_great_ article. Seagate predict 2TB desktop HDs by 2009, but with a flat graph for seek times; Intel are paying Val Henson to work on OpenSolaris' ZFS; "F-sock" is not the international pronunciation of fsck (it isn't?!)

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[from rjray] Diane Trout - FreeAgent Drives

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A Problem of Plenty?

LWN: The 2006 Linux File Systems Workshop