Samsung overtakes Apple as world's most profitable mobile phone maker

Re:Samsung overtakes Apple as world's most profitable mobile... by pavs on Saturday July 27, 2013 @10:05AM (#6112903)

Not sure where you are heading with this.

To make my point more clear, why on earth would you or anyone care about how much money the manufacturer of a product you use (or has similar OS to the product you use) make or by how much money its beating its main competitor in this quarter?

I can think of three possibilities:

- You are a market analyst.

- You are an investor.

- You are fanboy.

I am going to go with fanboy.

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Re:Samsung overtakes Apple as world's most profitable mobile... by cageface on Saturday July 27, 2013 @11:16AM (#6113168)

Or:

- You are a developer that has to make some bets about where to focus resources and learning time.

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Re:Samsung overtakes Apple as world's most profitable mobile... by mwfunk on Saturday July 27, 2013 @01:56PM (#6113757)

The original poster wasn't coming from that perspective either. He was basically Grubering for Android, which is about as interesting and insightful as when Gruber does it for iOS.

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Re:Samsung overtakes Apple as world's most profitable mobile... by pavs on Saturday July 27, 2013 @12:17PM (#6113426)

If you are on mobile business, its currently a duopoly, if you are not investing on both top 2 platform you are doing it wrong.

I would also probably categorize this in to "investor", in the sense that your business is investing on that platform, so profit margin of that platform in a relevant information for you.

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Re:Samsung overtakes Apple as world's most profitable mobile... by mynegation on Saturday July 27, 2013 @02:45PM (#6113932)

Or go with 'investor', if not in the usual sense of word.

I am a user concerned with long-term investments into ecosystem: apps, purchases of DRM-d content (as bad as it is), compatibility with peripheral devices (external batteries, fitness and medical etc). I've been burnt before (Palm devices anyone?) so now I pay a great attention to market share, third-party ecosystem, opinions of developers about the platform etc.

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Re:Samsung overtakes Apple as world's most profitable mobile... by belorn on Saturday July 27, 2013 @02:59PM (#6113987)

Or:

- You are randomly interested in the world.

- You are bikeshedding, following Sayre's law

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