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“Really? WHat manufacturers would that be? The highest share of any Android phone maker is 12% for HTC, vs. 27% for Apple. Samsung rings in at 5%”

Ummm, we’ve been talking about this chart.

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2011/06/hgfjhg.jpg

Do try and keep up.

Ummm, we’ve been talking about this chart.

Perhaps you should look at THIS chart instead:

This chart is a bit dated, representing the last quarter of 2010... but the change is a reduction in the size of RIM, Windows, and Nokia and an increase in both Apple and Android.

I'm curious why you root for foreign companies to keep the profits so strongly over an American company...

You STILL have not addressed the SECOND half of the MobileLens graphic you posted showing that Samsung, RIM and Motorola are eating their own markets and LG is barely holding it's own (with a 0.1% gain) while only Apple is making significant gains in the overall cell phone market. It appears they are selling only to their previous customers while Apple is selling to customers from other makers. Note that this is the traditional dead quarter in Consumer Electronics following the Holiday quarter... and Apple GAINED on that quarter!

Ummm, we’ve been talking about this chart. http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2011/06/hgfjhg.jpg Do try and keep up.

Your chart is misused. The top one refers to smartphones by OS provider. In this chart, Apple and RIM's numbers reflect hardware sold only by them. Google's 31% reflects hardware sold by a number of different manufacturers. Not one of those individually (Samsung, HTC, etc.) is anywhere close to the amount of hardware sold by either Apple or RIM.

The bottom one refers to total phone sales (assuming 1 subscriber = 1 phone sale) regardless whether they're smart or dumb, what OS they run, whether they're $300 smart phones or the ones that come free with a contract or cost $14.95 prepaid. These dumb phones make up the majority of phones sold. Do the numbers, if Apple is 7% of all and 24.7% of smartphones, then dumb phones are almost three quarters of the market. Almost all of Samsung sales are in the low-margin dumb phone market, so they dominate this chart. Apple and RIM actually sell enough smartphones to be included in this chart. HTC, the #1 Android and Windows Phone 7 manufacturer, doesn't even show.