Losses of income/revenue of ‘no name’ Android phone businesses - does not mean they are not making, shipping and selling phones by the tens of thousands. If one takes the combined number of ‘no name’ sales - the number of units shipped is quite considerable. South East Asian Countries are awash in low name / no name brands... There will likely be a period where these companies totally fail from not making a profit... but in the mean time they are taking sales from the top names...shipping phones to buying customers.
I am in Thailand and there are thousands of small shops selling phones ... and only a few are top name brands. They sell because it is what South East Asians can afford. I have an iMobile - iStyle Android ... cost just over a 100 bucks ... that is a lot of money for an Asian. 65 million people in Thailand and more than half have a mobile phone as they call them... Only a small percentage have Samsung or Apple.
Exactly. . . they make no name Android cell phones and tablets and post losses. . . Somebody is shipping money out the door. . . Or. . . They are cooking the books, and profits are sticking to fingers not showing on the books. Xiaomi makes a profit but doesn’t pay the licensing and royalties required for the IP in their phones and tablets the big names do, you can bet these no name companies don’t either.
You can bet a lot of those "top name brands" aren't the top name brands either. Xiaomi makes a line of iPhone look alikes that even have Android skins that look like iOS. . . and come in boxes that look like iphone boxes, and they aren't the only ones.