Soleron said:
Precisely. Apple's margins >>>> Android or Winphone margins. From the actual OS, MS and Google don't make much. Profit, unlike Apple, comes from the tie-in to their other products: search, the store, Windows 8, Win8 tablets. And Win8 is selling less than Win7 last year despite being a new OS, so it's already failed at promoting Windows. Go and look at MS's profit for the relevant division. It's not high. |
To me, the comparison of Samsung and Google's mobile profits is more interesting than an Apple/Google/MS comparison. It's interesting that Android has made more money for Google's partner (singular, all the other partners are shivering in the cold) than it has for Google.
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