“Hardware IS Dead” Thesis Has Now Torn Through All Handset Providers & Now Everyone Can Act On It

I called the Apple short before it became vogue! I called the Blackberry short beforethey became the industry whipping boy! I warned about Nokia and made clear that Samsung Will Be Ready To Do That Fruit Thing! How’d I know all of this? It’s quite simple, I explained it all in 2012 – Smartphone Hardware Manufacturers Are Dead. Well, now the chickens continue to come home to roost, as per CNBC:

In order to deal with such pressures, Samsung appears to be pricing the Galaxy S5 lower than its predecessor S4, according to Kang, who has collected pre-order prices for the device from around the world.

“It reflects the trend of smart phone commoditization – Samsung will have to learn to create profits at a lower price point,” Kang said.

Earlier this week, Samsung said it’s on track to post its second straight quarter of profit decline, as slowing smartphone sales growth continued to weigh on earnings.

Samsung Electronics 1Q profit view just shy of estimates

The South Korean tech giant estimated that its January-March operating profit fell by 4.3 percent to 8.4 trillion won, slightly below an average forecast of 8.5 trillion won, according to Reuters.

I’ve created an infrastructure that significantly expands these investment markets by allowing anyone, anywhere with an Internet connection (of almost any speed) to participate in almost any of the world’s public financial markets. Taking the subject matter of this article into consideration, we can short Samsung on its own home exchange of Korea for nearly any amount, from $10 million US down to $8 …

These same young investors can even hedge thier currency translation risk with a Korean Won US dollar forex pair, for 55 basis points!

Armed with the information from simply reading my blog posts, your brothers from Haiti or Botstwana can now take short positions in these (margin)doomed hardware manufacturers – taking the other side of the trade from these big name financial institutions that don’t seem to read my writings.

 

These are kids that I taught UltraCoin to during my trip to Haiti a couple of weeks ago. Before you assume, the kids are actually quite bright and adept at math, and yes – kdis can easily trade with UltraCoin. My kids have been doing it for months!

My UltraCoin project will nearly double the available potential investors able to profit from these markets. By making the ability to participate in multi-asset class prices moves bi-directionally (that’s right,  long and short) I will be increase the liquidity of said markets by almost 2 billion people, as per McKinsey:

• 2.5 billion adults, just over half of the world’s adult population, do not use formal financial services to save or borrow.
• 2.2 billion of the unserved adults live in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East.
• Of the 1.2 billion adults who use formal financial services in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, at least two-thirds, a little more than 800 million, live on less than $5 per day (purchasing power parity adjusted).
• Regulatory and policy environments, as well as the actions of individual financial services providers, affect usage levels in a way that is, to a large extent, independent of countries’ socioeconomic and demographic characteristics.

I just had the pleasure of meeting this young lady from Botswana who’s trying to spearhead Bitcoin adoption in her country. I’ve made friends and I’m going to supply her with the means to have the whole country trading a whole variety (UltraCoin can trade more than 10,000 tickers – stocks, bonds, options, futures, indices) of financial assets very soon. 

PS Paying BoomBustBlog subscribers can download the latest beta as of Tuesday evening EST.

I’ll leave it up to you to determine who’ll win those trades. These are interesting times indeed. For those who are not aware of how far I’ve come in transforming the way value is traded across geo-political and socio-economic lines, I urge you to view the following video and/or peruse the embedded presentation below it.

 

 

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