Why do profit-seeking companies keep making profitless Android phones?

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http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/cCqLx9P9fRqqH3ZAPPnxIw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3NfbGVnbztmaT1maWxsO2g9ODY7cT03NTt3PT EzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en-US/homerun/verge.vox.com/b1118b68f094cedb4ba888f24edf04da (http://news.yahoo.com/why-profit-seeking-companies-keep-130002030.html)Here’s a quick survey of the traditional Android device manufacturer landscape: Samsung is doing alright, LG and Sony could be doing better, HTC doesn’t know what it’s doing, and Motorola is done. Smartphones have grown to be the most essential piece of modern technology, and yet the industry manufacturing them has backed itself into a corner where only two companies, Apple and Samsung, are generating any reliable profit. It seems a Sisyphean task, and it’s been going on long enough to invite the question of why so many companies bother making Android phones at all.



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