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发帖数: 3838 | 1 http://www.macrumors.com/2012/05/03/apple-and-samsung-claim-99-
Asymco's Horace Dediu has released his data on operating profits among the
eight top mobile phone vendors for the first quarter of 2012, finding that
Apple and Samsung together now hold 99% of the profits with Apple
representing the lion's share at 73%. Apple's share was down slightly from
75% in the previous quarter, but Samsung boosted its share from 16% to 26%
to shut out nearly all other vendors.
Among the other six vendors, only HTC managed to eke out a profit, taking 1%
of the total industry profits. Research in Motion, LG, Sony Ericsson,
Motorola, and Nokia each failed to turn a profit on their handset businesses
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The rise of Apple and Samsung at the expense of all of the other major
vendors comes as the mobile phone market continues to expand and more
expensive smartphones make up an increasing percentage of overall mobile
phone sales. Consequently, Apple and Samsung share growth is coming even as
the total pool of profits is surging. Over the past two years, profits taken
by these top eight vendors has risen from $5.3 billion to $14.4 billion,
driven in large part by carrier subsidies worth hundreds of dollars on each
of the growing number of smartphones sold. |
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