Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), si Samsung are two of the largest mobile phone manufacturers in the world, and in Q1 2013 the two companies they cashed the entire profit of the mobile phone manufacturers industry. Yes, you read that right, because according to Cannacord, no other mobile phone manufacturer made a profit in the first 3 months of this year. The news is good for everyone, because in the past the manufacturers of mobile terminals, apart from Apple and Samsung, recorded losses, but in Q1 2013 they managed to equalize the costs through receipts.
Apple and Samsung can't be stopped in the handset market, according to new data from analysts at Cannacord Genuity. The analysts on Monday announced that Apple and Samsung again combined to steal all of the operating profits in the handset industry in the first quarter of 2013. In other words, there isn't a single other device maker competing in the mobile industry right now that's actually nabbing industrywide operating profits. Although that might sound like bad news for companies like Nokia, Motorola, and Sony, Cannacord pointed out that in the past, Apple and Samsung had actually combined to generate more than 100 percent of industry profits, due to losses at other handset makers. This time around, the figure is just 100 percent.
If you ask yourself who took more and who took less, well Apple recorded 57% of the profit and Samsung 43%, the percentage of those from Apple being in a serious decrease. If two years ago Apple managed to collect three quarters of the entire profit of the industry, now it manages to obtain a little over half, but sells much fewer terminals. Apple sold 37 million iPhones, while Samsung sold 115 million mobile phones, but still failed to surpass Apple.
