Apple and Samsung grabbed virtually all industry profits in Q1 2012
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1. TylerGrunter posted on 30 Apr 2012, 08:41 6 0
Please Victor check your math: if Apple had 80% of the profit and Samsung had 20% then between both of them would have 100% of the profits, which it's impossible.
Add to that this other hint: 4 billion is to 12 billion as 20 is to 60, not 80...
That would add up if you had said that Apple has around 60% share of the profits not 80%...
2. sarb009 posted on 30 Apr 2012, 08:46 3 0
samsung profits $4.5 billion and apple's is $11.6 billion. then how apple share is 80% n samsung share is 20% ??? i m confused and i cant calcuate this. anyone have any idea?
12. hung2900 posted on 30 Apr 2012, 10:25 1 0
That's not the 1st time Victor's had a mistake in maths. In an article for tricking on Fools' day he said that a 6.7 inch screen is nearly two times bigger than 3.5 inch screen of Iphone, but the fact is nearly 4 times, not 2 times.
16. greathero1 posted on 30 Apr 2012, 11:22 0 0
The Samsung profits that you speak of are for the entire company and divisions of Samsung. This is about the wireless industry.
19. sarb009 posted on 30 Apr 2012, 13:16 0 0
ok samsung´s profit is $3.9 billion is just from mobile industry then its20% if the total profit is $16 billion but how the hell apple´s profit could be 80% which is less than $12 billion which is a bit less than 60% not 80%. do ur maths homework
28. greathero1 posted on 30 Apr 2012, 14:46 0 0
Was that really necessary lol? Its a little off but 11.6 of 16 is about 73%, a lot more than the 60% you speak of but hey, 73% is a little less than 80% so they could have been a little more accurate. Asi haces su tarea de matematicas y aprende como escribir chico lol! jk
3. sarb009 posted on 30 Apr 2012, 08:47 5 0
where is my maths teacher ? i need help right now !!!!!
4. darac posted on 30 Apr 2012, 08:50 2 0
This sounds silly. Like R&D are being financed purely out of profits.
While the reality is that R&D is just one of the expenses that go into the company's overall financial bill.
It's like saying that if Lockheed Martin has only a billion of dollars of yearly profit, they don't have big R&D.
For example, Huawei spent billions on research, which affected its profit.
Any extra money that is NOT being spent-that is profit.
10. darac posted on 30 Apr 2012, 09:40 1 2
..and just to add that Apple usually has lower overall revenue than Samsung, but they spend way less on employees and, ironically, R&D!(Samsung spends about 2-4 times more on R&D than Apple)
Hence their sky-high profit.
11. remixfa posted on 30 Apr 2012, 10:16 4 3
quite true. that's why Samsung Invents new tech and apple just pays others for it.
r&d is most definitely figured in to costs before profits.. not after.
profits are what is left after all expenditures have been paid.. not before.
silly article
13. taco50 (banned) posted on 30 Apr 2012, 10:59 2 14
Except the current smartphone market and tablet market was defined by Apple and everyone else just copied.
31. InspectorGadget80 posted on 30 Apr 2012, 21:05 0 2
Taco50 please shut THE HELL UP WITH ANDROID COPYING iOS.
15. greathero1 posted on 30 Apr 2012, 11:20 1 0
Thats not completely true. The reason Samsung's R&D is so much is because Samsung is in many more market segments than Apple so of course they spend more money. They compete in a lot more industries than Apple does. Even you broke this down and just included mobile space, Apple would still beat them hands down and probably spend just as much money as Samsung does on R&D.
38. remixfa posted on 01 May 2012, 12:35 0 0
greathero1
samsung mobile is a completely separate division of samsung. Samsung is like an octopus with each division being an arm acting independently of each other. Samsung Mobile spends billions on AMOLED, LCD, and processor (EXYNOS) research as well as on dozens of other things.
What Samsung Mobile spends in R&D is only for samsung mobile.
6. som posted on 30 Apr 2012, 09:09 2 0
All other phone makers didn't made profit so only Apple made profit of $11.6 billion (61%) and Samsung $4.5 billion (39%) it is 100%. But 80% to Apple and 20% to Samsung was a wrong calculation by an editor.
7. darac posted on 30 Apr 2012, 09:34 0 0
U serious?
HTC, LG, ZTE, Huawei also posted profits.
HTC had it's lowest profits in recent years, but still around 150million dollars.
They will bounce back to around 300m in the next quarter.
And we've yet to see about Motorola mobility(small profit not impossible), and Sony mobile(a loss is almost certain, but they will be back in green by the year's end).
The only heavy loser in the mobile industry right now is Nokia
14. taco50 (banned) posted on 30 Apr 2012, 11:04 2 3
Your Math is way off. You don't divide 4.5 by 11.6. You have to divide 4.5 by the total which is at least 16 billion.
36. gwuhua1984 posted on 01 May 2012, 12:26 0 0
I don't think you should worry about the earnings. Your bet with Remix was smartphone sales.
17. greathero1 posted on 30 Apr 2012, 11:26 0 0
That 4.5 billion is for the entire company of Samsung. This article is about a specific market segment so thats probably why there is a discrepancy.
21. sarb009 posted on 30 Apr 2012, 13:19 1 2
yes apple´s profit is about 60% not 80% agrre with u. and taco is a sheep with i in front of it.
22. taz89 posted on 30 Apr 2012, 13:23 1 0
tacos and remix bet was who would sell the most smartphones..based on 1 source taco would win and based on another samsung would win...
26. gallitoking posted on 30 Apr 2012, 13:47 1 2
thank you taz.. I was sick all weekend so I wasnt able to keep up to what happen here...
39. remixfa posted on 01 May 2012, 12:38 0 0
300 reports say samsung won. 1 report says apple MIGHT have won.. so of course Taco is trying to say he won. Yet his "proof" even said that Samsung more than likely won.
37. gwuhua1984 posted on 01 May 2012, 12:31 0 0
All the sources that came out before two weeks ago are comparing Apple Q1 results to Samsung 2011 Q4 result. Samsung's Q1 results were just posted last week. Profit wise, Samsung is behind, but smartphone sold and shipment wise, Samsung won by almost 10%. It's too bad the bet was on smartphones sold and shipped, it's quite obvious that profit wise Apple would win.
27. tward291 posted on 30 Apr 2012, 14:07 1 3
well both apple and sammy are both *** apple is like the guy that real popular and doesnt want anybody to know he *** lol and sammy is the retarted kid that gets bullied and really wishes he was the popular guy so he dress like him act like him but can never be hiim but they both end up being *** togther.
32. InspectorGadget80 posted on 30 Apr 2012, 21:06 0 1
Just love that picture laugh every time i see it.
35. Johnny_Mnemonic posted on 01 May 2012, 09:40 0 0
Taco and gallito are in front of everyone , they came out good
