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Apple's new iPhone - we get our hands on it and ask, has the market | :00:17. | :00:25. | |
hit saturation point? And not to be outdone, Japan's Sony offers art and | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
to its popular PlayStation game console -- upgrade. | :00:32. | :00:33. | |
Glad you could join us for this edition of Asia Business Report. | :00:34. | :00:40. | |
Well, the talk of the technology town is the Apple iPhone 7 but the | :00:41. | :00:55. | |
big question is - what?! No iPhone Jack? As expected, the company has | :00:56. | :01:01. | |
ditched the headphones. So, will it be a winner for Apple, or a gamble | :01:02. | :01:07. | |
too far? Dave Lee in San Francisco was one of the first to get his | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
hands on one of the latest Apple gadget. So, here we have it, the new | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
iPhone 7. This is in jet black colour, one of the new colours and | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
there is a couple of improvements, a better camera, it stabilises the way | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
it didn't before, but the meeting everyone will notice is that for the | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
first time you will notice there is no headphones act on the device. | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
This has made it easier for them to make it more water resistant and | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
dust resistant but, of course, there is no where to stick your head | :01:40. | :01:45. | |
phones. So you can put headphones into the lightning port, which you | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
might have used to charge your phone in the past. You can buy them to go | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
directly into it. Or there is an adaptor that can change it normal | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
headphones to go in there as well. It is a little bit ugly but it | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
doesn't look great. And Apple wants you to buy these, I will put this | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
down for a moment, these are the new wireless Air Pods, which look like | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
the old earphones but without wires and they just pop into your ears and | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
they connect directly to your phone. In the way they promised - it is | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
simpler than Bluetooth. I don't know about you, I find Bluetooth | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
difficult. These will retail at a which I think puts them a bit at | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
risk of someone coming up to you and pinching them straight out of UE. | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
Well, Apple faces stiff competition with the iPhone market -- smartphone | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
market -- your ear. Samsung is the leader of the park with a 23% market | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
share. Apple is second -- pack. And a distant third is Huawei with 8% | :02:46. | :02:55. | |
and together they account for less than half of the market. I asked | :02:56. | :03:02. | |
Jake Saunders if this iPhone will help Apple gain a big slice of the | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
market. The big part of it is to make it more waterproof, although it | :03:07. | :03:14. | |
is more splashproof, so it is IP67 versus IP68. It is creating more | :03:15. | :03:21. | |
seal and they just want clean lines. Steve Jobs always wanted simplicity | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
at the extreme. Do you think that Asian consumers will be able to | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
adapt quickly to this new kind of wireless technology, and Bluetooth, | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
which is being introduced with the iPhone 7? The top end, aspirational | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
consumers will purchase it and it will go down, and as vendor is come | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
in the price will go down to $70, probably within one or two years at | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
the very earliest. And they will continue to innovate. It will | :03:51. | :03:52. | |
eventually become commodity price. Week after week, month after month | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
we have new products on the smartphone market - have we already | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
reached saturation point? It is certainly very saturated. The | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
smartphone market will still grow to about 2.2 billion in from the 21. A | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
lot of that additional growth will come out of emerging markets, | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
Africa, the Middle East, South America -- from 2021. They write now | :04:16. | :04:22. | |
have the sort of C series of phones. It is a brutal space. The other | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
smartphone guys like Hauwei are trying to go up -- right. They have | :04:29. | :04:38. | |
the P9, and they have the Honour series. What about Samsung, they | :04:39. | :04:45. | |
lead the market but they had to recall their Note 7 - will this hurt | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
market share? They have 23% of the market, apple has 15% of the market. | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
So, Samsung is still the dominant player. They're very wise, they | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
didn't let it become a big issue with consumers. I mean, I think they | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
sold about 15 million or so of the Note and there has only been a fuse | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
sort of hundred or so, it is still fairly shocking - who wants your | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
phone suddenly exploding into fire? -- few sort. They have contained it. | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
It has happened to other vendors, so it is unfortunate but they have | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
addressed it. That was Jake Saunders of ABI Research on the iPhone 7. It | :05:24. | :05:30. | |
is a done deal, the merger of two technology heavyweights finally | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
complete. The merge between US computer giant Dell and Cloud | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
Computing provider EMC is one of the biggest ever technology mergers. The | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
pricetag, a whopping $67 billion US, that is much bigger than Microsoft's | :05:46. | :05:53. | |
recent purchase of link in at $26 billion US or Facebook's $19 billion | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
purchase of WhatsApp, so what will the merger mean for the new | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
technology family and its customers? Let's get some and so is from David | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
Webster, the leader of the enterprise business for the | :06:08. | :06:09. | |
Asia-Pacific region. Thank you for joining us, David. First of all, | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
everybody wants to know, $67 billion between Dell and EMC - what will it | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
mean for your customers? If we look across Asia, our customers are | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
facing a common challenge, that is how do they change their business to | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
become more digital? And how do they of all their business to be more | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
competitive? Their combination of Dell and EMC brings to the market | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
and opportunity for our customers to leverage technology into three key | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
areas of data, data management, security, protecting the | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
environment, transforming their workplace and how they think about | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
transforming IT, so tremendous opportunity for customers in every | :06:49. | :06:51. | |
part of the world including every country in Asia to take advantage of | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
the combined entity. It is about digital transformation. But in a | :06:55. | :07:00. | |
slowing global economy, our companies willing to spend more, or | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
are they holding back? Companies are spending more -- are. They are | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
spending money to reduce money, they are optimising. Their they are | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
freeing up money to create cloud native infrastructures -- they are | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
freeing up money. Moving spending to the new is allowing companies across | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
Asia to take advantage of the digital opportunity. This is now a | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
massive company - how are you dealing, or how are you | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
complementing the challenge of the disrupters? It is really | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
interesting, when you look at both companies when a complimentary in | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
how we come together with products and technology. Our culture is | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
similar, we have a centre of gravity for both companies, our customer is | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
number one, and what we do for our customer, so when we think of the | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
digital disrupters and the challenges, we think that having a | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
solution set that goes from the edge to the core to the cloud allows | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
companies in Asia to be able to deal with digital disruption - we give | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
them the end-to-end scale which will be really important. Businesses in | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
Asia don't think about business just in Asia but about business globally | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
and global business is a scale business. What about here in the | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
Asia-Pacific region, which particular countries are offering up | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
more business for Dell EMC? We have seen growth across every geography | :08:25. | :08:27. | |
in Asia. You haven't felt the slowdown in China? We see slowdown | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
and growth in all geographies. Some industry sectors are up, some | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
industry sectors are down, which is traditional in IT. We think there is | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
opportunity across every geography and we think that the combination | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
will enable that growth to be accelerated. Thank you so much for | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
joining us, David Webster, and good luck with the consolidation. Well, | :08:52. | :08:58. | |
it is a big day as well for Japan's Sony Corporation. The firm has | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
launched the latest version of the console the PlayStation. Earlier, I | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
spoke with our correspondent who was at the launch in New York and asked | :09:07. | :09:13. | |
if this console will be a hit. Certainly it hopes it will be, a lot | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
is resting on the PlayStation and today as you mention this event was | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
here, competing as you know with the Apple event, which was on at the | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
same time on the other side of the country. Executives came out on | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
stage and unveiled two PlayStations, which was expected, the PS4, slimmed | :09:32. | :09:40. | |
down and skinnier if you like, and then the PS4 Pro, which many have | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
read about in the press, calling it Neo. This one is 4K, high dynamic | :09:45. | :09:51. | |
range capabilities, in simple terms it means the graphic capability is | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
better and, even if you are not biting the PS4 Pro, you will still | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
be able to get some of the benefits, because putting out the firmware | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
means that even the PS4 for the early adopters can still get HDR on | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
their machine. The reason Sony is doing it as one executive told me is | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
to future proof the company. They know that many people still don't | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
own a 4K TV but they hope this will keep them up to date and ahead of | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
the competition, and keep Microsoft at bay. All right, our correspondent | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
in New York on the PlayStation 4. Thank you so much for interesting | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
your time with us. I'm Rico Hizon. Sport Today is coming up | :10:34. | :10:35. |