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My take on the graph: 1. Apple's margin on iPhone is uniquely high. 2. Despite Samsung and HTC's surge in smartphone unit shipment. Their margins on Android p
by AllenKids 15y ago
My take on the graph:
1. Apple's margin on iPhone is uniquely high.
2. Despite Samsung and HTC's surge in smartphone unit shipment. Their margins on Android phones have been squeezed so much their share of profits only grows modestly. My guess is the cut-throat price war and the push for specs really affected the bottom-lines.
3. Can MMI be saved? Seriously this company is so spectacularly inefficient quarter after quarter. Android phones only serve to keep it from dying and the Xoom is a flop. Any other Deus Ex Machina? Should we begin to expect another patent bundle bidding war a la Nortel incident?
- dmbass 15y agoOn point 2, they also release at least 4 new phones every month to "stay competitive (with each other)". That can't be cheap.