{"id":2688,"date":"2016-11-07T09:18:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T17:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/?p=2688"},"modified":"2016-11-07T09:18:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-07T17:18:00","slug":"apple-is-basically-the-only-company-making-any-money-selling-smartphones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/2016\/11\/apple-is-basically-the-only-company-making-any-money-selling-smartphones\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple is basically the only company making any money selling smartphones"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/827931\/apple-is-basically-the-only-company-making-any-money-selling-smartphones\/?utm_source=qzfb\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/applesmartphoneglobalprofit.jpeg?w=987\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Winner takes all\u2014and a little bit more.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"annotatable\">Apple is still the king of profitability among smartphone makers. And it\u2019s not even close.<\/p>\n<p class=\"annotatable\">Yes, the company experienced three straight quarters of declining iPhone sales before registering\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlas.com\/charts\/SkUvBHakl\">an uptick<\/a>\u00a0in its most recently completed quarter. And its overall quarterly\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/818808\/apple-aapl-fourth-quarter-earnings-annual-revenue-and-profit-fall-for-the-first-time-since-2001\/\">profit slid<\/a>\u00a0for the first time in 15 years. Even so, Apple accounted for a staggering 103.6% of the smartphone industry\u2019s operating profits during the third quarter, according to a BMO Capital Markets analyst,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.investors.com\/news\/technology\/click\/apple-iphone-grabs-104-of-smartphone-industry-profit-in-q3\/\">Investor Business Daily reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"anno-right\">\u00a0Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/827931\/apple-is-basically-the-only-company-making-any-money-selling-smartphones\/\">Apple is basically the only company making any money selling smartphones<\/a><\/em><\/div>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winner takes all\u2014and a little bit more. Apple is still the king of profitability among smartphone makers. And it\u2019s not even close. Yes, the company experienced three straight quarters of declining iPhone sales before registering\u00a0an uptick\u00a0in its most recently completed quarter. And its overall quarterly\u00a0profit slid\u00a0for the first time in 15 years. Even so, Apple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maccconsulting"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p834Wu-Hm","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2690,"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2688\/revisions\/2690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}