Although owning guppy-like market share of smartphone sales , Apple is landing whale-sized profits, one analyst said Tuesday. Indeed, within 3-5 years, expect non-smart handsets to vanish from the mobile landscape.
“I don’t see non-smart devices being interesting to vendors in the near term,” Dediu writes. “Each additional dumb phone added to a portfolio will decrease a company’s operating margin.”
The analyst then predicts so-called feature phones are on the endangered list. “I think non-smart phones will disappear entirely from branded portfolios in 3 to 5 years.”
[Fortune]
Ed Sutherland is a veteran technology journalist who first heard of Apple when they grew on trees, Yahoo was run out of a Stanford dorm and Google was an unknown upstart. Since then, Sutherland has covered the whole technology landscape, concentrating on tracking the trends and figuring out the finances of large (and small) technology companies.
