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Originally Posted by afv011
In English: apple is overcharging.
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I think the more interesting bit is the first part:
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Samsung and Apple may be duking it out for the number one slot in smartphone sales (particularly due to the collapse of Nokia), but the two leaders have an astonishing combined 99 percent of global handset profits for Q1 2012.
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If that is correct, then there are only two players. There isn't really an Android smartphone market, there is a Samsung smartphone market.
At some point will Samsung get fed up of being reliant on Google for Android updates and progress, and spin off their own OS? Why provide the Google app store and let Google take a cut of all app sales, when they could run their own store instead? (Much as Amazon have decided to do with the Fire.)