[Swordmaker]

Apple's iPhone has grabbed 48% of all mobile phone profits since it's introduction PING!

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Apple iPhone Profit Ping!

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[ConservativeMind]

Uh, this idiot of a researcher left out HTC.

HTC has been trading publicly since 2002 (well before the iPhone’s introduction).

This stupid “analyst” negates to even include reasoning as to why HTC is not considered a phone vendor in the US.

Swordmaker, it figures you’d post this.

[Mr. Blonde]

Seems like Motorola’s gains would be attributable to Android.

[antiRepublicrat]

The recurring theme in this series of articles has been that giant multinational incumbents in a vast and rapidly growing industry

I read a while back that Apple internally in many ways operates like a startup, not a big corporation. That's probably a reason why the company is able to remain so dynamic despite having one of the biggest market caps in the world.

[smokingfrog]

HTC hits top 10, Android surges

[RachelFaith]

This analyst is correct in everything he predicts and he is wrong for everything he leaves out.

This is my take on the situation.

Apple will remain the largest profit making vendor. For all the reasons stated above in the article and by many posters on this thread.

But the others aren’t going away.

They are all going to go to Android and it WILL dominate “marketshare”.

That will keep the dinosaurs alive, but never will they recover their profit margins.

Apple will continue to innovate and provide the top of the line must have experience.

Going off the ATT exclusive in a few months will only HELP Apple and HURT everyone else.

But cheap plastic Low End “smarter” phones will be dominated by all the rest and because of that be stuck with Android.

Just like the $150 junk Tablets at Kmart.

Apple will not even care about marketshare in terms of how many plastic virus laden screen falling off under powered low battery life knock offs out their choose to run Android.

Any more than they care about $199 PCs. Hasn’t effected them one bit. They don’t want to make crappy cheap products with a $10 mark up and that’s fine by me. I don’t want to be that junk either.

[hecht]

My wife and I both own droids. Mine is Motorola , hers is HTC. The only reason we have them is that we are on Verizon.
The day Verizon has the I-phone, we will switch to the I-Phone.