Apple takes 53% of smartphone profits, Samsung at 50%, remainder lose money

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    kdarlingkdarling Posts: 1,640member

    Quote:

    Originally Posted by womble2k2 View Post



    There is one area this report doesn't cover well.



    Someone who buys an iPhone and enjoys using it will buy another iPhone.



    Samsung devices are just android devices. If the user likes android, they will buy another android phone, which could be Samsung, HTC, Sony, ...


     


    Not WILL buy another brand.  They CAN buy another brand.  There's a difference. 


     


    According to recent rankings by ASCI, Samsung has pretty good customer satisfaction in the USA:


     



     



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    Originally Posted by heffeque View Post



    It still amazes me that people ask about the 50% 53% thing. It's been like that for years now. Don't people learn? Can't people try to figure it out by themselves? It seems pretty logical that some companies have negative profit so they end up rounding everything out to 100%. It doesn't take a genius to figure something like that out.


     



    Something can make mathematical sense, but still be a poor way of presenting data in such a way as to make the most sense to the most people.  Especially if most are not accountants :) 

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