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Saturday 30 January 2021
When Apple launched the AirPods Max, the price of high-street headphones shot past the £500 mark, and while diehard audiophiles are scoffing at that being ‘cheap’, it remains for the majority of us a hefty chunk of change.
Prices have been increasing steadily since Beats by Dre transformed the headphone business model in 2008, with well-established brands quickly realising there’s a market for premium audio products not designed for the classic hi-fi set.
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With the phenomenal rise in music streaming and ubiquitous nature of smartphone design, headphones quickly became status symbols. The global market size was valued at $25.1 billion in 2019, with annual growth predicted at a staggering 20.3 per cent from 2020 to 2027.
Philips TV Tuner History pt5
Competition and Growth
Introduction
We have reached the end of the 1980s, probably the turning point in the Philips Tuner history. On the one hand the business has been doing well: constant consolidation of (mainly European and US) competitors has substantially increased the market share and volumes, making it one of the global top3 tuner makers. However, in parallel the emergence of Japanese competition has made the business environment increasingly harsh, with a serious pressure on profitability and thus cost. Although Philips with its UV800 tuner family has probably made the best tuner ever in terms of robustness and performance, this model is clearly too big and expensive and in the coming two decades we will see a continuous drive for cost reduction and the associated size reduction. One of the most remarkable steps in this context is the move to the World Standard Pinning (WSP), with Philips agreeing with its main competitors Alps and Matsushita