Competition in handsets at the low end of the market is perhaps more chilling for Nokia than Apple eating into its market share at the high end. Because here, it faces not just one company but an entire industry.
In China, thousands of tiny workshops in Shenzhen, across the border from Hong Kong, have grown into viable companies over the past few years after MediaTek, the Taiwanese chipmaker, started offering a complete chip platform enabling any newcomer in the industry to make a handset.
These are the so-called ‘bandit’ handset makers – companies that lack certification and often produce copycat versions of branded phones.
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