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Title: With 15.5% of smartphone sales in Q1, Apple took 65% of profits Post by: HCK on May 10, 2014, 02:00:03 pm With 15.5% of smartphone sales in Q1, Apple took 65% of profits
Because the other manufacturers lost money last quarter, Apple and Samsung split 106%. <p>FORTUNE -- Mixing numbers is probably even more dangerous than mixing drinks, but the contrast every quarter between the estimates from IDC of smartphone shipments and those from Canaccord Genuity of smartphone operating incomes is too tempting to resist.</p> <p>With the usual caveats -- these are only estimates, and with only Apple (AAPL) reporting actual unit sales, who knows where they come from? -- let it be noted that:</p> According MORE (http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2014/05/09/apple-samsung-smartphone-profits/)<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tech.fortune.cnn.com&blog=8466345&post=141822&subd=fortunebrainstormtech&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" /><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/fortuneapple20/~4/9hi1aGpLv5A" height="1" width="1"/> Source: With 15.5% of smartphone sales in Q1, Apple took 65% of profits (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/fortuneapple20/~3/9hi1aGpLv5A/http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2014/05/09/apple-samsung-smartphone-profits/#commentshttp://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2014/05/09/apple-samsung-smartphone-profits/feed/atom/) |