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sharkThink: rethinking product value development. Stay sharp, keep thinking!

Product value development starts by understanding the jobs your customers are trying to accomplish with your products. Helping users with these outcomes is the benchmark for concept innovative.

Jul 14
2007

1 billion camera telephones

Posted by John Landerholm in recycling, environment, design
John Landerholm

Yes that's right, 500 million camera phones sold in 2006 By the end of 2007 there will be 1 billion camera phones in existance. The sale of mobile phones with a camera have skyrocketed from 3 million in 2001 to 500 million sold in 2006. In 2006 there were sold 1 billion mobile telephones worldwide, half of which were camera phones.

Lets take a moment to grasp this: It took Casio 30 years to sell 1 billion calculators. I don't even think McDonalds sold a billion hamburgers that fast!

 

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Everyone's talking about the "i" word: innovation. "We need more innovation" it's being said over and over. It starts to get a little bit repetitive. Of course we have be innovative to survive, but thats like saying we have to look both ways before we cross the street. What we really should be focusing on is increasing product value for users. You heard it here first.