The
Samsung Galaxy S3 has been launched today, and from what we’ve seen so far, Samsung’s turned out another showstopper. It’s big, it’s beautiful, it’s stupendously fast. To call it an iPhone killer would be facetious: where there’s space for one, there’s space for two, and right now Apple’s too busy
making a killing to care about having anything resembling a close rival.
But it does present a problem for the Android eco-system as a whole. See this graph? This chart, published by the analysts at
Asymco today, depicts the percentages of profit in the smartphone market since the launch of the original iPhone back in 2007. And as you can see, right now, Apple and Samsung are cleaning house.
But here’s a worrying thought. What happens when no other Android manufacturers can even get a look in?
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