Samsung's Mobile Business Sees Major Profit Drop Following iPhone 6 Launch

[Taz Mangus]

net profit of 4.63 trillion - WOW!

And this is with all the varied electronics products Samsung sells, including TVs, refrigerators, air conditioners, LCDs and OLEDs, memory cards for cameras as well as computers, and printers, all of which Apple does not produce or sell.

Good for them.

That is $4.63 trillion Korean won, not U.S. dollars. The currency conversion works out to be $4.35 billion U.S. dollars.

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No, you are wrong. I just copied and pasted that.

Now go try to buy something with that profits you just copied.

 

[AlecZ]

I would love to see Apple make an ad in the style of a MAC vs PC style ad. I love it when companies take out each other thru advertisement. C'mon, don't leave Samsung hanging when they poked Apple from every possible angle.

You only do that when you're not such a well-known brand. The "Mac vs PC" ads were back when Macs were obscure.

 

[Lars T.]

You'd have to have the breakdown by device and size to make any further commentary.

Well, why don't you provide numbers supporting your claim instead of poopooing mine because they don't? How many Android phones do have large screens? Just post the number.

 

[gaximus]

Do iPhone users still believe that they carry the "most advanced mobile operating system" in their pockets?

Wasn't an answer, but, yes we do.

 

[Tiger8]

In the end none of your trinity matters without profit. Profit is needed for any business to be sustainable. It may not take much profit, but there has to be some.

Wrong. Revenue, market share, and volume are far more important than profit. Profitability is a secondary criteria. Do you know that some of the biggest companies in the us have little to no profit in the time they have healthy revenue? Do you know the difference between revenue and profit ?

 

[taradene]

Sell more phones and make less money.

That's what happens when you sell a lot of cheap phones with BOGO promotions.

Exactly!

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You only do that when you're not such a well-known brand. The "Mac vs PC" ads were back when Macs were obscure.

True, their is really no context now when it comes to stability and the superior product. Thats why samsung keeps attacking apple, because they are scared of them.

 

[Elvergun]

Do iPhone users still believe that they carry the "most advanced mobile operating system" in their pockets?

No...iPhone users KNOW that they carry the "best mobile operating system" in their pocket.

 

[H2SO4]

Samsung are the biggest hypocrites of any tech company and are tacky and classless. They fuel the bend campaign on the iPhone 6 Plus because of it's thinness. They create the Wall Huggers ad campaign to diss Apple for using built in battery and Voila! A new S6 is born and is a nothing short of a poor copycat of the iPhone 6 Plus. Karma Sammy. That's why your profits are down and people aren't wasting money on your overpriced Apple clone.

Is that ‘Overpriced Apple’ clone, or overpriced ‘Apple clone’?

 

[I7guy]

Wrong. Revenue, market share, and volume are far more important than profit. Profitability is a secondary criteria. Do you know that some of the biggest companies in the us have little to no profit in the time they have healthy revenue? Do you know the difference between revenue and profit ?

Fwiw, positive revenue and negative for profit companies don't usually last that long.

 

[Fattytail]

Fwiw, positive revenue and negative for profit companies don't usually last that long.

No kidding! I love how he calls profitability secondary. There may be some companies - and entire industries - that operate on a negative profit business model. But for most companies, that won't work for very long. It's called common sense. Any company that brings in less money than it spends isn't doing something right.

 

[Tiger8]

Fwiw, positive revenue and negative for profit companies don't usually last that long.

No kidding! I love how he calls profitability secondary. There may be some companies - and entire industries - that operate on a negative profit business model. But for most companies, that won't work for very long. It's called common sense. Any company that brings in less money than it spends isn't doing something right.

Where exactly did I say anything about negative profit in any of my posts?

 

[aduzik]

14nm finfet
Ufs 2.0 nand
577ppi super amoled screen

All 3 are designed and made by samsung

Apple is not a component manufacturer. These are all components. That's Samsung's trump card? Incremental component improvements? No wonder they're in trouble.

 

[McCool71]

Which is enormously useful from what I can tell. You know, cause when you have a full screen in front of you, you want to look at a tiny screen on the edge.

It is one of those small things you get used to and would like to keep in the next phone you buy as well.

Like having the time and alarm viewable on the side of the phone when it is on your nightstand. I find that tiny thing alone a superior experience compared to fumbling around in the dark to lift your phone in the middle of the night to check what time it is.

 

[Michael Goff]

Apple is not a component manufacturer. These are all components. That's Samsung's trump card? Incremental component improvements? No wonder they're in trouble.

Not necessarily.

Incremental updates have done amazing things for Apple over the years.

 

[skratch77]

Apple is not a component manufacturer. These are all components. That's Samsung's trump card? Incremental component improvements? No wonder they're in trouble.

What does your responce have anything to do with the other guy saying samsung don't make and design there own tech?

 

[aduzik]

What does your responce have anything to do with the other guy saying samsung don't make and design there own tech?

Read the post of mine that was in response to. That post doesn't answer the question I asked. I didn't say Samsung doesn't make their own technology. I said Samsung doesn't make their own ideas. And I stand by that.

 

[Palladium SG]

For a phone that is supposed to be best thing since sliced bread from Samsung and expected to sell 70M the lack of any actual sales figures so far is a deafening silence of it's success.

 

[SactoGuy18]

The thing that could really drive iPhone 6 and newer sales is the possibility we could see a Software Development Kit (SDK) for Apple Pay at WWDC this year. And that could make it possible for the iPhone 6/6+ and newer models to support prepaid (but refillable) NFC payment systems such as Hong Kong's Octupus and Japan's Mobile Suica and Rakuten Edy.

It will be interesting to see if the Samsung Galaxy S 6 can do the same thing in the near future, since it does have an NFC radio subsystem.

 

[skratch77]

Read the post of mine that was in response to. That post doesn't answer the question I asked. I didn't say Samsung doesn't make their own technology. I said Samsung doesn't make their own ideas. And I stand by that.

And why don't you read the post that I quoted and responded to for the post you quoted me in.

After you read it re read my post to you on wtf does tour post have anything to do with me telling the other guy samsung makes and designs there components.

 

[nviz22]

Do people really care that much about who is the #1 cell phone manufacturer? I mean it's back and forth between Apple and Samsung.