[citation][nom]becherovka[/nom]Apple don't touch their product how are they a manufacturer? Global foundry's do it all using others parts yes your right other company use others parts sometime even getting others to manufacture their end products, but not ever single unit. Iphone = Googles nexus in terms of manufacturing is concerned. Lol at apple selling more than samsung, maybe they will just have a good couple of months inline with their launch of new phone. But if you look at the chart that will be short lived. http://articles.businessinsider.co [...] e-platformEvery company pays royalties don't you get that? even you beloved iphone was not invented by apple but rather they compiled other technologies together to make something slightly different to the Sony smart phone before them or the nokia touch that was never produced but been around many years.[/citation]
'Apple don't touch their product' - is simply not true. You seem to have no clue whatsoever. Not only do they own many companies who supply them products (making those companies effectively Apple), such as the recent Israel acquisition, they also, as an example, bought millions of dollars worth of laser machines for use in the manufacturing process to cut holes for the webcam in the Mac line of laptops. But even if they hadn't, I don't think you have a clue what a manufacturer actually is, but thankfully Forbes do:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2011/11/22/apple-poised-to-become-largest-computer-manufacturer/
As for this comment:
'Lol at apple selling more than samsung, maybe they will just have a good couple of months inline with their launch of new phone. But if you look at the chart that will be short lived.'
What was 'short lived' was Samsung selling the most smartphones for just 1 quarter - just before Apple released the iPhone 4S. Of course, the fact that Apple delayed the launch of the 4S was largely responsible for this - and you will see Apple go far higher than Samsung in that chart for this quarter. As for your speculations about the future? 1 - It's speculation, and 2 - It's irrelevant, since we're discussing the now, not the maybe ('This will happen in x months' is all I ever seem to hear from Android fans, like how the Nexus Prime was going to be better than the iPhone 4S). The bottom line, the fact, is that Apple sells more smartphones than anyone else right now. And not only that, they also make far far more profit. They do not yet pay royalties to Samsung, but when they do (within FRAND regulations), they will be marginal - nowhere near the level that Samsung has to pay to Microsoft, and of course they make far far more money in the first place on every sale. Samsung only makes $7.50 profit from each i-device, yet for that it has to actually deliver some of the items which end up in the final product, such as the CPU. Which neatly brings us back to the entire point of my original point, which has seemingly escaped you:
Android manufacturers all have to pay Microsoft, and they all have to compete at a much lower price point, meaning that even though Android will clearly be more popular than iOS due to being adopted by more than 10x the manufacturers, none of the manufacturers (or even Google) will make anywhere near as much profit as Apple do. Not only that, right now, none of them sell as many smartphones, even at massively cheaper prices, than Apple do with the iPhone range. Even when they do, they will still make fundamentally less profit, and that's before we even start to mention the massive profits Apple makes off the App Store - which continues to be much more profitable than Android even with fewer numbers.
'Apple don't touch their product' - is simply not true. You seem to have no clue whatsoever. Not only do they own many companies who supply them products (making those companies effectively Apple), such as the recent Israel acquisition, they also, as an example, bought millions of dollars worth of laser machines for use in the manufacturing process to cut holes for the webcam in the Mac line of laptops. But even if they hadn't, I don't think you have a clue what a manufacturer actually is, but thankfully Forbes do:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2011/11/22/apple-poised-to-become-largest-computer-manufacturer/
As for this comment:
'Lol at apple selling more than samsung, maybe they will just have a good couple of months inline with their launch of new phone. But if you look at the chart that will be short lived.'
What was 'short lived' was Samsung selling the most smartphones for just 1 quarter - just before Apple released the iPhone 4S. Of course, the fact that Apple delayed the launch of the 4S was largely responsible for this - and you will see Apple go far higher than Samsung in that chart for this quarter. As for your speculations about the future? 1 - It's speculation, and 2 - It's irrelevant, since we're discussing the now, not the maybe ('This will happen in x months' is all I ever seem to hear from Android fans, like how the Nexus Prime was going to be better than the iPhone 4S). The bottom line, the fact, is that Apple sells more smartphones than anyone else right now. And not only that, they also make far far more profit. They do not yet pay royalties to Samsung, but when they do (within FRAND regulations), they will be marginal - nowhere near the level that Samsung has to pay to Microsoft, and of course they make far far more money in the first place on every sale. Samsung only makes $7.50 profit from each i-device, yet for that it has to actually deliver some of the items which end up in the final product, such as the CPU. Which neatly brings us back to the entire point of my original point, which has seemingly escaped you:
Android manufacturers all have to pay Microsoft, and they all have to compete at a much lower price point, meaning that even though Android will clearly be more popular than iOS due to being adopted by more than 10x the manufacturers, none of the manufacturers (or even Google) will make anywhere near as much profit as Apple do. Not only that, right now, none of them sell as many smartphones, even at massively cheaper prices, than Apple do with the iPhone range. Even when they do, they will still make fundamentally less profit, and that's before we even start to mention the massive profits Apple makes off the App Store - which continues to be much more profitable than Android even with fewer numbers.
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