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Samsung Credits Mobile with Half of All Profits

Samsung has detailed its full results following a brief preview earlier in the month. The Korean electronics giant mustered the equivalent of $42 billion in revenue, but owed much of this and its profit to a 30 percent increase in its cellphone business. Almost half of its working profit, $2.3 billion out of $4.7 billion, came from its mobile group; profit as a whole was up 17 percent.
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What’s curious about the statements from Samsung is they didn’t release Smartphone sales numbers. Or numbers of its Tablets for that matter. You would think, given its very public attacks on Apple in particular, it would want to tout these numbers, so I ind it curious that it is keeping the details to its chest.

Just sayin’

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Motorola Posts 80m Quarterly loss

Ouch. Looks like Google made a really good deal there.

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Android Loses Market Share

Looks like the unstoppable force has ….well, stopped.

I’m sure that all those pundits who are convinced that the whole Android / iOS thing is a replay of mac / windows will be convinced by this news, and that of Apple’s earnings.

I’m sure of it.

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The Problem with Android OS Fragmentation

Developer Jon Evans on Tech Crunch describes the problem succinctly:

… Device fragmentation is just an irritation.

OS fragmentation, though, is an utter disaster. Ice Cream Sandwich is by all accounts very nice; but what good does that do app developers, when according to Google’s own stats, 30% of all Android devices are still running an OS that is 20 months old?

Considering that it is becoming more and more apparent that handset manufacturers don’t particularly care about providing updates to the software on their phones, (why give a free upgrade when you can “encourage” people to buy a new phone) this problem is going to get worse and worse for developers. Unless of course Google changes the terms of the licence agreement to force them to provide updates, but I don’t see that happening. And, considering the OS is open source anyway, Google couldn’t really force them, even if it wanted to.

But hey, at least it’s open, right?

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Google posts Android Design guide to solve polish woes

This is an interesting move by Google considering so many pundits and bloggers get openly hostile when you suggest that Android has a “polish” issue.

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