“The smartphone war is often depicted as a battle between iOS and a world of Android phonemakers, but a report released this week suggests that in terms of profit, Apple really has one main challenger — Samsung,” Rachelle Dragani reports for MacNewsWorld.
“The South Korean manufacturer and Apple together account for 95 percent of the Q4 2011 profit in the handset industry, according to a report from Canaccord Genuity. Apple accounted for 80 percent of the industry’s profit in that time frame, outselling all other smartphones combined at AT&T and Sprint, the report states,” Dragani reports. “Samsung has stepped up to the plate and captured 15 percent of the remaining profit.”
MacDailyNews Take: Some “main challenger.” If this were a basketball game, it would be 80-15; the 2011 NCAA National Champion Kentucky Wildcats vs. Mount Holyoke College. (Note for Samsung: Mount Holyoke is an all-female institution.)
Dragani reports, “With Samsung as a main competitor, Apple can focus its attack against a single challenger… The competition for profit is only going to worsen the blood feud between the two companies. The two are already engaged in multiple heated legal battles over patents.
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It’s more like they’re playing Forkland University For crippled Kids…
Not nice. Prick.
Life with no humor makes for someone like you…learn to smile once and awhile.
Oh, most of here understand humor. Yours was just tasteless. I won’t say you’re a prick, because I can’t be sure, but you ARE dumb.
So if you don’t enjoy my taste, don’t eat it. Who gave you the right to judge over others to begin with? It just makes you look angry.
Yup.
Make us smile… …get hit by a car.
Not right now thanks as it’s I’m having to much fun watching you twitch and chew your tongue.
“Crippled” is no longer an acceptable term, unless you are a bigot and a jerk.
Really? Who wrote that law…you?
You sound like the reason stupid people shouldn’t bred…
Has anyone seen the new ads for the Samsung television? With people touching it and swiping in the air? Pretty funny stuff.
It’s like Microsoft’s touch screen computer, meets WebTV, meets… I don’t know, something else that sucked.
Yeah it is bit ridiculous. These types of technologies are never implemented properly and are just gimmicks. The commercial is of course simulated to make it look like it could be a good thing, but in practice it never works that way. I have an old Samsung TV that someone gave me, it has volume control which is supposed to keep the volume at a level setting. It doesn’t work properly and is annoying as hell, seems like it just randomly turns the volume up and down.
Yup. It’s like Samsung reads the rumor mill and slaps a prototype together, assuming they’ll beat Apple to it.
I don’t think Steve Jobs spent the last however long “cracking” a TV interface only to come up with that.
Reminds me of Microsoft’s attempt at making touch screen laptops, assuming that’s what Apple was going to do.
I just saw that commercial for the first time tonight. You have to get in front of the TV and wave your arms around to access features instead of simply using a remote. Who the hell in their right mind would see that as desirable?
“With Samsung as a main competitor, Apple can focus its attack against a single challenger… ”
Sorry Rachelle, you just don’t get it, and probably never will. Apple doesn’t focus on profits, or on their competition. They focus on their customer, and the experience that customer has with their products.
That is the reason Apple will win, and take 80%+ of any available profit. Also, units shipped doesn’t equal units sold.
+100
This.
SHHHhhhh! Quit helping Apple’s “competitors” out will ya? As long as Apple listens to its inner voice (and customers in a strange way [see Steve’s rule about focus groups]) while Samsung and the others listen to analysts and reporters then those others will continue to flounder around. I can wish that because I’m one who believes Apple didn’t create great products because of competition — it created them because existing solutions are ugly.
You do remember that just a couple years ago when Apple had virtually no share of the computer market don’t you MDN? I don’t see Samsung pulling even with Apple anytime soon but in a year they will increase their 15 percent. Apple should dominate for the foreseeable future but competitors aren’t going to give up (except for RIMM) anymore than Steve Jobs gave up. At one time nobody could have predicted Sony going to hell either. It happens. C’mon MDN, you just reprint stories that enrage the fanboys you don’t need to add your 2 cents.
Let’s see you bet with your money. Short Apple if you are so sure of yourself.
I thought so. You have no skin in the game. MDN takes are right on the money most times and are funny often.
Ha ha, at a party over the weekend I met a loudmouth fool in the investment business who had just started heavily shorting AAPL. He also was going long Nokia. Concerned for his family, I tried to point out all the many flaws in his reasoning. He shouted me down. Fine I said, short more AAPL on Monday morning and buy more NOK. He yelled at me that he would. Although not a financial professional, I have had considerable investment success especially with Apple and know its story from every angle. AAPL is far from peaking.
Did. Yesterday and today. Ok genius?
“competitors aren’t going to give up”
Palm went belly up.
IBM left the PC business. HP is on and off whether it wants to continue its PC line. WebOS is in limbo.
100 plus android tablets shown at CES last year, many never reached production i.e they ‘gave up’ BEFORE they even started.
Sony, Phillips, Sandisk, iRiver, Creative Nomad, Toshiba, Saehan, Diamond Rio, Cowan, Archos, Zune, and whole bonk of others (like dozens!) Vs iPod :some of these are still around but many of the dozens ‘have given up’.
when the android phone makers realize they aren’t making money they will give up too. Motorola would be broke if Google didn’t buy it and HTC has announced profit warnings.
Smith to wed, Holyoke to bed…
samsung is going to get bought out by micro in the next 5 years
i would bet my pony on it
Meanwhile…in other news…Samsung is a major supplier for Apple. What a surreal Universe. Who writes this stuff????
With Samsung as a main competitor, Apple can focus its attack against a single challenger
Bullshite. The actual problem here is that Apple has NO REAL COMPETITOR. Historically, that has never boded well for customers.
HEY SOMEONE! Get busy ACTUALLY competing with Apple! Please!!!
As for Samsung: Soooo screwed. Nasty little plagiarizing parasites.
This is one of the growing reasons why Apple must purchase Sony and LG, so Apple can manufacture its own components by itself without needing the help of Samsung.