Apple and Samsung accounted for 88% of mobile phone profits in the last 6 years
 

Apple and Samsung accounted for 88% of mobile phone profits in the last 6 years
http://c2.bgr.com/2013/12/sweden-phones.jpg?w=610If you want to see how utterly futile it is for companies other than Apple and Samsung to make money selling mobile phones, look ** further than the numbers posted by Asymco's Horace Dediu that chart the profit share of smartphone manufacturers for the past six years. According to Dediu, the mobile phone industry generated $215 billion in net operating profits over the past six years and Apple and Samsung combined to devour 87.9% of them.

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