When it comes to what matters, Apple and Samsung rule, and they’re unlikely to be dislodged soon. Still, those companies aren’t likely making much of a profit and certainly not enough to alter the picture of Apple and Samsung’s profit dominance of higher-priced phones. The bigger question mark is how the changing complexion of the smartphone market will dent the Apple and Samsung profit duopoly. Even as the smartphone industry shifted from hypergrowth to barely budging, Apple and Samsung have continued to gorge all available profits at the fat end of the market. The question is whether the dominance its rivals can’t shake might be undone by the slow-growth, more profit-conscious smartphone market that we’re entering now.

Source: Mint August 23, 2016 03:00 UTC