No, it wasn't and hasn't been. It has been around for a long time. The current figures come from many sources who calculate it independently. BZZZT! They do NOT come from Tavis McCourt but from the Financial reports of the companies involved. Sorry, again you are wrong. They are not "Guesses."
I don't know what you think you proved with that long rambling cut and paste, but it said nothing about "profit share." You seem to think it is an arcane calculation or guess. It isn't. Total all the profits of all the companies making cellular phones for any specific period. . . calculate the percentage for each company of that total. Voilá, Profit Share. Some companies LOST money so the percentages can total more than 100%.
McCourt originated this silly meme, and some other organization ran with it. Heck, during the internet/telecom bubble, some analyst came up with price to sales ratios to justify the insane valuations and the whole brokerage sector adopted it, right until the bubble blew up. Without the underlying source citations, these "profit share" numbers are indistinguishable from fiction. I have found lots of these guesses on the internet but no source numbers (i.e. 10-Q's, 10-K's and so on) to back them up.No, it wasn't and hasn't been. It has been around for a long time. The current figures come from many sources who calculate it independently. BZZZT! They do NOT come from Tavis McCourt but from the Financial reports of the companies involved. Sorry, again you are wrong. They are not "Guesses." I don't know what you think you proved with that long rambling cut and paste, but it said nothing about "profit share." You seem to think it is an arcane calculation or guess. It isn't. Total all the profits of all the companies making cellular phones for any specific period. . . calculate the percentage for each company of that total. Voilá, Profit Share. Some companies LOST money so the percentages can total more than 100%.