<p>However, with the large part of OS development being done by google, the actual phone manufacturers only have to worry about hardware, and possibly drivers</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 2011-02-07 1:31 PM, "Lennart Sorensen" <<a href="mailto:lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys@public.gmane.org">lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbviStVtt7rNQw@public.gmane.orgterloo.ca</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 03:07:36PM -0500, William Muriithi wrote:<br>
>> This is an interesting article. What I found interesting is the<br>>> profit graph at the bottom. Seem like Apple is getting half of the<br>>> smart phones profit share. That is despite selling only half of the<br>
>> android volume. Since a non subsidized iphone cost $700 and most of<br>>> the android phones cost $550 to $700, -Not a big price difference, it<br>>> imply Apple manufacturing process may be far more efficient. Its kind<br>
>> of odd, how they pull that out as all manufacture their phones from<br>>> China.<br>>><br>>> <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/rorycellanjones/2011/02/android_topples_symb.html">http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/rorycellanjones/2011/02/android_topples_symb.html</a><br>
> <br>> If apple sells 1 million units of one model, that distributes the<br>> development costs of the circuit board, custom connectors, case molds,<br>> etc, as well as getting nice volume discounts on the screen and such.<br>
> <br>> If 2 million android phones are sold, but is spread of 20 models,<br>> each one only has 100000 units to distribute those same costs over.<br>> That's not nearly as profitable in the end. The android phones may well<br>
> turn smartphones into a commodity. Commodities are not where you make<br>> huge profits however.<br>> <br>>> The android market size also has another implication. Its now highly<br>>> likely that WebM may actually get entrenched at the expense of H.264<br>
> <br>> But apple and Microsoft have H.264 patent royalties to worry about<br>> (customer interest doesn't matter nearly as much of course).<br>> <br>>> Anyway, just thought it may be of interest to you<br>
> <br>> -- <br>> Len Sorensen<br>> --<br>> The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: <a href="http://gtalug.org/">http://gtalug.org/</a><br>> TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns<br>
> How to UNSUBSCRIBE: <a href="http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists">http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists</a><br></div>