Well, my point was that it's incredibly difficult to be an Android manufacturer that isn't Samsung, given they utterly dominate the market. It's very crowded.

Strangely, people have been saying what your comment implied, that no-one could make any money on Android devices, for quite a while. In fact I'd go so far as to say it was considered uncontroversial by many of the people saying it.

And now when faced with the elephant in the room that is Samsung, they are forced to retreat to, well only Samsung can make profits, but no-one else can. But if they couldn't predict Samsung, why would we listen to what they've got to say about the future now?

(Just out of curiousity, did you correctly predict that Samsung would make so much money from Android?)

You could say that it's incredibly difficult to be outside of the top 5 smartphone manufacturers. But isn't that true of the laptop market or the server market as well?