{"id":751964,"date":"2013-05-17T19:12:39","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T23:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talkandroid.com\/?p=162595"},"modified":"2013-05-17T19:12:39","modified_gmt":"2013-05-17T23:12:39","slug":"samsung-grabs-95-of-global-android-smartphone-profits-in-q1-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/751964","title":{"rendered":"Samsung grabs 95% of global Android smartphone profits in Q1 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a  href=\"http:\/\/www.talkandroid.com\/162595-samsung-grabs-95-of-global-android-smartphone-profits-in-q1-2013\/samsung-money\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-162600\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-162600\" alt=\"samsung-money\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.talkandroid.com\/uploads\/2013\/05\/samsung-money-630x354.jpg?resize=630%2C354\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As we <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.talkandroid.com\/162227-android-activations-account-for-nearly-17th-of-the-worlds-populations-with-900-million-total-activations\/\">reported before<\/a>, over 900 million Android-powered smartphones have been activated since the platform&#8217;s debut in 2007. While its no surprise that Samsung leads the herd over HTC, LG and Sony (among other competitors), it may come as a shock just how much they dominate by. According to a report by Strategy Analytics, Samsung captured 95% of Android&#8217;s profit in the first quarter of 2013.\u00a0<span id=\"more-162595\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The report states that Android made $5.3 billion dollars in the first quarter, with Samsung making $5.1 billion off Android-powered handsets in that same time period. That comes to 94.7% of the profit share, and those figures don&#8217;t include tablets. While some question Samsung&#8217;s tactics, such as using all plastic hardware and producing multiple phones every year, something is clearly working for them.<\/p>\n<p>In second place, LG accounted for 2.5% of the profit share, while all other manufacturers (including HTC, Sony, Pantech and many more) accounted for the last 2.7%. Samsung&#8217;s incredible numbers led to one more startling realization:\u00a0Strategy Analytics\u2019 Director Neil Mawston believes Samsung now makes more money from Android than Google.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a  href=\"http:\/\/redirectingat.com\/?id=3031X597718&xs=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.strategyanalytics.com%2Fdefault.aspx%3Fmod%3Dreportabstractviewer%26%23038%3Ba0%3D8505&sref=rss\">Strategy Analytics<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<strong>Come comment on this article: <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.talkandroid.com\/162595-samsung-grabs-95-of-global-android-smartphone-profits-in-q1-2013\/\">Samsung grabs 95% of global Android smartphone profits in Q1 2013<\/a><\/strong>\n<br \/>\n<div style=\"text-align:right;\"><small>Visit <a  rel=\"dofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.talkandroid.com\/\">TalkAndroid for Android news<\/a>, <a  rel=\"dofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.talkandroid.com\/guides\/\">Android guides<\/a>, and much more!<\/small><\/div><\/p>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/AndroidNewsGoogleAndroidForums\/~4\/A4tqJNJ_eqo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we reported before, over 900 million Android-powered smartphones have been activated since the platform&#8217;s debut in 2007. While its no surprise that Samsung leads the herd over HTC, LG and Sony (among other competitors), it may come as a shock just how much they dominate by. According to a report by Strategy Analytics, Samsung [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5374,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-751964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-39Cs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5374"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}