On 6/27/07, Roger B.A. Klorese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Craig Froehle wrote > > Which, in CE product life cycles, is indeed quite a while. If > > Cupertino has any hope of hitting the 07 holiday season, they will, > > but with Leopard now slated to come out in late Fall, I wouldn't hold > > my breath. All speculation, of course. > > Do holiday seasons really affect cell phone purchases significantly?
Yes. http://www.twice.com/article/CA6383899.html "As for the top CE gifts overall, the leading five for 2006 (with their 2005 rankings in parenthesis) are in order: digital camera (2); cellular phone (9); portable MP3 player (1); video game system (3); and portable CD player (6)." "The wireless phones category is predicted to be hot this holiday season with 47 percent of CE gift-giving teens saying they are going to buy one. The overall likeliness to buy is 30 percent, up 6 percent from last year, with revenues expected to be up 26 percent and contribution to be up 12 percent." [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
