Though Nokia did a commendable job increasing their smartphone sales by about 30% during that period, they obviously missed A LOT of opportunities and let their competitors gain significant ground which will not be easy to recoup.
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.
@uvatbc: your analogy may be more appropriate to Nokia's non smartphone sales. their profit per unit on that segment may be that low.
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/
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guys favours are different.
android is nice and maemo is it too.
they are both great on each own way.
there is no need to discuss in 1000000 threads whats better.
everyone should live his live and buy what he want.
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except apple
No it isn't, the foetus was delivered 3 months premature, half its cortex destroyed because the backstreet doctor botched his coat hanger abortion. A passing good samaritan with a heart of gold, no life and more money than sense found it in a trash can covered in saline burns, tried his best to resuscitate it, failed but decided to keep it in the attic like a ****ing lunatic anyway.
Hot on the heels of Samsung admitting that it had exaggerated sales of its Android tablet to consumers, it is becoming clear that Google's Android platform definition is being stretched to include Chinese rivals, including China Mobile's Ophone and Tapas OS, a project run by the former president of Google China.
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Describing the Chinese OMS as a "variant" of Google's Android platform is a troublesome stretch not just because China Mobile lacks any interest in using its forked version to support Google's ad platforms and services. OMS is also tweaked to use its own APIs and support WAP for web browsing. WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) is a mobile website technology that replaced the full Internet for mobile users there but hasn't ever caught on in the US.
China Mobile's OMS is therefore not only "not Google," its also incompatible with Android apps, and apparently more compatible with Windows Mobile. A report by an Asian technology newsletter said China Mobile issues its own SDK for OMS, and boasts around 600 apps for the OPhone. The company claims 430,000 developers for its platform. It invites Android developers to create apps for OMS, but the two are not the same platform in any meaningful sense.
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That suggests most the growth in "Android" numbers is coming from no-name vendors selling devices in countries such as China, using devices that don't support Google's development of the OS (via ads or search services) nor even expand the platform in any meaningful way that could benefit Android users.
