Before looking at this chart, we should emphasize: Samsung is not “doomed.” It’s a hugely profitable company that has a lot more businesses than just smartphones and every other Android vendor can only dream of having the kinds of sales and profits that Samsung enjoys. That said, a new chart produced by Jackdaw Research’s Jan Dawson shows that things are definitely looking very bad for Samsung when it comes to the growth of its mobile phone business unit. This huge erosion in growth for Samsung’s smartphone sales is important because high smartphone sales are what has transformed Samsung from a very successful component supplier into being a massive, world-conquering profit monster. In fact, Dawson says that smartphone sales are so



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