[joedoe55555]

Yeah yeah yeah, I might have been wrong with some details and with the sales numbers in 2012. However my main point stays the same: the traditional cell phone manufactures are in big trouble because of Android.

Samsung may be exceptional, although I doubt their current success is long-term. HTC's success, eventhough it is in absolute numbers smaller than Samsung's, is way larger in relative numbers. Samsung was popular before Android, HTC was when Android was released just a "chinese noname brand".

To illustrate this even more: HTC was founded in 1997, Samsung was founded in 1938.

There a many examples of companies that are able to make lots of money with hypes, but most often after the hype is over, they stop earning that extra money. Even when the current smartphone hype is over, HTC earned something that Samsung already had: brand recognition.

[lwhi]

Your original point was that no one's making money from Android apart from Google and HTC.

You were wrong.