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Tag: profit share vs. market share

Apple reaps 106% of smartphone industry profits

Monday, November 21, 2016 3:04 pm12 Comments

Apple has seized everything worthwhile from rivals in the smartphone industry…

Apple iPhone achieves ‘an impossible dream’

Friday, November 4, 2016 2:25 pmFriday, November 4, 201614 Comments

That money can be used to fund more research, more development, and more design…

Total dominance: Apple iPhone takes 104% of smartphone industry profits

Friday, November 4, 2016 9:55 amFriday, November 4, 201634 Comments

Among major vendors, Samsung was No. 2 in smartphone profits with a tiny 0.9% share…

Google plans to release its own smartphone and it will fail

Thursday, July 7, 2016 6:01 pmThursday, July 7, 201613 Comments

Google has quite a few reasons to design its own smartphone and have better control over its software, services, and users…

Google’s Eric Schmidt reveals his Apple iPhone

Tuesday, May 24, 2016 4:47 pmTuesday, May 24, 201610 Comments

Schmidt, chief executive for Alphabet and former Google boss, revealed he had an Apple iPhone…

Beleaguered Samsung’s mobile woes rooted in hardware legacy, little understanding of software

Tuesday, December 22, 2015 4:44 pmTuesday, December 22, 201519 Comments

Interviews with former and serving Samsung employees paint a picture of confusion and overlap between competing divisions…

South Korea to probe Apple contracts with iPhone repair providers

Wednesday, December 9, 2015 8:25 amWednesday, December 9, 20154 Comments

South Korean regulators will investigate Apple Inc.’s relationships with local phone repair companies…

Apple’s iPhone expected to outgrow Android 17.3% vs. 9.5% year-over-year

Saturday, December 5, 2015 6:20 pm16 Comments

IDC estimates the total number of smartphone shipments will hit 1.43 billion units…

Samsung woos investors with promises of future innovations that Apple already ships

Monday, November 23, 2015 11:30 amMonday, November 23, 20158 Comments

Last week the Samsung’s 2015 Investors Forum allowed executives from the South Korean company…

Beleaguered Samsung axed 5,000 employees over last year – with more cuts on the way

Friday, November 20, 2015 2:00 pmFriday, November 20, 20157 Comments

One thing for sure is that more Samsung executives will leave the company…

Apple to close in on Samsung in worldwide smartphone market share in 2016 – researcher

Friday, November 20, 2015 8:38 am6 Comments

Total smartphone shipments for 2015 are projected to decline by 9.7% to 1.286 billion units…

Apple’s iPhone can soon reap 100 percent of world’s smartphone profits

Tuesday, November 17, 2015 12:00 pm10 Comments

There’s nothing to stop Apple from capturing 100 percent of smartphone profits…

Apple’s iPhone owns 94% of smartphone industry’s profits

Monday, November 16, 2015 1:01 pmMonday, November 16, 201510 Comments

The vast majority if smartphone makers from Lenovo to Sony, HTC to Blackberry all lose money on their smartphones — and lots of it…

The mobile train has left the Windows 8 platform behind

Thursday, February 7, 2013 10:13 pm43 Comments

According to Canaccord Genuity, Apple took in 69% of the handset profits in 2012…

Apple rakes in 71% of the world’s smartphone profits

Saturday, September 8, 2012 2:02 pmSaturday, September 8, 201224 Comments

Even before Apple has announced the name or the shape of its next iPhone…

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