seems to be stable. Policies structured by the Obama administration such as taxation and reducing public spending will have an adverse impact on the buying power of consumers (Shankar & Carpenter, 2012)
Threat of Substitute Products/Services A great deal of dynamic research and development into cell phone technology has been underway. Operators are redesigning their systems to advanced wireless and other third-generation (3G) services, numerous new diversion and correspondences administrations are getting accessible (Thiyagarajan, 2009)
The Netflix agreement will empower Golden Line to offer movies to their customers utilizing Golden Line Blu-beam disc players. This cooperation will lead to newer avenues of profits (Kim & Mauborgne, 2010)
Threat of New Entrants The mobile phone industry is exceptionally concentrated following the later Sprint/Nextel merger. In fact, only four firms control eighty percent of the present market (Nijssen & Frambach, 2010)
Over the past year growth in the Smartphone platform has been exponential, to the point where a simple mobile phone is becoming rarer and rarer. In fact, in 1st Quarter 2010, almost 50 million people in the United States owned Smartphones, making it the fastest growing market segment in the United States (Gonsalves 2010)
" This type of device offers more computing ability and connectivity than a phone -- and may be thought of as a handheld combination of phone, PDA, and computer. The Smartphone operates on one of several computing platforms that also allow the user to install and run applications, just as they would on a personal computer (Nusca 2009)
Mobile Phone Trends and iPhone Technology When considering the ever-changing and highly competitive global landscape of business today, firms must stay at the cutting edge of their respective fields in order to sustain profitability in the long-term. With the current exponential growth and advancement of technology and the computerization of business and learning, consumers and investors have become much more connected to the businesses they patronize (Kurzweil)
The opportunity for Zynga exists, as Pincus looks to develop the next big mobile phone gaming hit. Indeed, by taking a page out of Nintendo's playbook and designing an interactive mobile phone gaming product like Nintendo's Pokemon Go, Pincus could deliver a sure-fire hit that catapults the company's stock back to all time highs -- just as Pokemon Go did recently for Nintendo's stock (Mochizuki, Needleman)
Indeed, by taking a page out of Nintendo's playbook and designing an interactive mobile phone gaming product like Nintendo's Pokemon Go, Pincus could deliver a sure-fire hit that catapults the company's stock back to all time highs -- just as Pokemon Go did recently for Nintendo's stock (Mochizuki, Needleman). In fact, the "pop" may already be happening for Zynga, as the roll-out of a new line of games, such as CSR Racing 2 has helped propel the company's stock up 23% in the past week (Munarriz)