This chart shows Apple’s share of operating profits from global mobile phones dropped to 60% in Q3. Samsung are now at 39%. HTC  at 1%. No other companies are profitable, tweets Horace Dediu.

This raises a few questions.

1. If Motorola, RIM and Nokia go under what happens to Google’s operating system Android?

2. Is Google trying to save mobile maker Motorola so it is not held hostage by Samsung, the only profitable smartphone maker running Android?

3. Is this really a business that Mircrosoft – who are thinking about developing their own smartphone – wants to enter?

Brenda Eich, CTO of Firefox, has the answer.

“2.5 billion people have come on the web in the past 20 years, and we are going to get another 2.5 billion in the next five years.”

And most of those will be from the developing world using mobile.

Bingo! Or should I say ker-ching!

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