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Originally Posted by Iggy City
Sales of 'crap no name phones' have been increasing due to the emergence of new (and huge) markets such as India, China and practically the rest of Asia.
Android makers saw an opportunity to provide low quality/low cost phones and gain a giant market easily.....why wouldn't they take that opportunity?
If anything, Apple is totally dropping the ball on creating an awesome but cheap iPhone for emerging markets.
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Apple is quite happy making profits:
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Apple has a relatively tiny slice of the smartphone market, measured by phones shipped to consumers.
According to the latest data from IDC, iPhones were 17.6% of smartphones shipped last quarter. Android-based phones were 78.1% of the phones shipped.
But if you measure the smartphone market by profits, Apple is practically a monopoly.
Analyst Tavis McCourt at Raymond James estimates Apple has 87.4% of smartphone profits.
The next closest is Samsung, with 32.2% of smartphone profits.
Yes, those numbers add up to over 100%. That's because everyone else is losing money, and so McCourt gives the rest of the world's phone makers negative profit share.
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http://www.businessinsider.com/apple...#ixzz3EENjIF5C
The article goes on to suggest that this has left a void at the lower end that Android has filled and that ultimately Apple will run out of high end customers. That remains to be seen, but so far their business acumen has been spot on - the goal of a business being to maximize profits.
It's a great situation for Google too, since they make money from the android ecosystem primarily via advertising revenue so are fine giving away the OS. What I don't understand are the other phone manufacturers that seem to be losing a crapload of money - what's in it for them?