Thread: Android overtakes Symbian as world's best-selling smartphone platform in Q4 2010
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2011-02-01 , 23:08
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Originally Posted by ysss View Post
This doesn't even take into account the profit per unit, which Apple has always lead for the past few years. They might very well exceed Nokia's total profit from smartphone sales, even though they ship slightly less than half of Nokia's.
It's much worse than that, Apple's phone profits exceeds Nokia's total (not just smartphone) profit by a significant margin. Apple is estimated to be earning around half of the entire phone industry profit these days, see http://www.asymco.com/2011/01/31/fou...stry-overview/
and in particular,
 

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