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Title: Apple and Samsung: 95.7% of shipments, 120% of profits Post by: HCK on February 14, 2014, 02:00:07 pm Apple and Samsung: 95.7% of shipments, 120% of profits
Many combatants fought the smartphone wars. Most are bleeding money. <p>FORTUNE -- Two sets of stats came out this week that should give the smartphone also-rans pause. </p> IDC estimates that 95.7% of fourth quarter smartphone shipments originated either with Samsung (78.1%) or Apple (17.6%). Raymond James' Tavis McCourt estimates that in the broader market for mobile phones of all varieties -- smart and dumb -- Apple captured 87.4% of the industry's profits and Samsung 32.2%. <p>So MORE (http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2014/02/13/apple-samsung-shipments-profits/)<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tech.fortune.cnn.com&blog=8466345&post=133954&subd=fortunebrainstormtech&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" /><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/fortuneapple20/~4/P0FzF_UXdxI" height="1" width="1"/> Source: Apple and Samsung: 95.7% of shipments, 120% of profits (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/fortuneapple20/~3/P0FzF_UXdxI/http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2014/02/13/apple-samsung-shipments-profits/#commentshttp://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2014/02/13/apple-samsung-shipments-profits/feed/atom/) |