Hacker News Reader

Samsung makes all the Android money because they make the best Android phones. It isn't that hard to understand. Second point I'll make is Nokia's windows phones are competing with Android so pretending that they are in some different "pool" is just lying to yourself. Third, if you read the article the guy is saying Nokia makes good hardware and could bring that to Android possibly beating Samsung in the process.

View on HN

Right, but the reason Samsung is making money is the customer wants the Samsung Android phone and the carriers are selling them, same as they did with Motorola before them. And of course, the customer wants the Samsung phone because Samsung and the carrier are advertising it so much. When is the last time you saw a Nokia phone advertised by a carrier in the US. (The issue with Qualcomm is really what killed Nokia, Elop was the response to falling or nonexistent really US marketshare.)

> Nokia's windows phones are competing with Android so pretending that they are in some different "pool" is just lying to yourself.

This.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com