SmartphoneReviews

Rob_F · 05-02-2012, 05:19:59 PM

Thanks for your input everyone.

Some interesting numbers here in relation to smartphone market share...

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In profit share worldwide smartphones now far exceed the share of non-smartphones. According to a November 2011 research note from Canaccord Genuity, Apple Inc. holds 52% of the total mobile industry's operating profits, while only holding 4.2% of the global handset market. HTC and RIM similarly only make smartphones and their wordwide profit shares are at 9% and 7%, respectively. Samsung, in second place after Apple at 29%, makes both smartphones and feature phones and doesn't report a breakdown separating their profits between the two kinds of devices, but it can be intuited that a significant portion of that profit comes from their flagship smartphone devices.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone

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It is far from an iPhone only world now and with increased competition and better available handsets, I assume their current market share will stay the same at best, or dwindle.

Me personally, I specifically didn't want an iphone, and ended up with a HTC.

- Rob

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Rob_F Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 1,085 Classified Rating: 100% (1) Domain Trader Rating: (100% / 46)	Thanks for your input everyone. Some interesting numbers here in relation to smartphone market share... --- In profit share worldwide smartphones now far exceed the share of non-smartphones. According to a November 2011 research note from Canaccord Genuity, Apple Inc. holds 52% of the total mobile industry's operating profits, while only holding 4.2% of the global handset market. HTC and RIM similarly only make smartphones and their wordwide profit shares are at 9% and 7%, respectively. Samsung, in second place after Apple at 29%, makes both smartphones and feature phones and doesn't report a breakdown separating their profits between the two kinds of devices, but it can be intuited that a significant portion of that profit comes from their flagship smartphone devices. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone --- It is far from an iPhone only world now and with increased competition and better available handsets, I assume their current market share will stay the same at best, or dwindle. Me personally, I specifically didn't want an iphone, and ended up with a HTC. - Rob