Apple is falling...doomed?

[JHBThree]

Samsung's handset division had an estimated operating profit of $5.2bn (?3.4bn) in the second quarter of 2013, according to Strategy Analytics.

Apple's iPhone operating profit was estimated at $4.6bn, with the iPhone range "underperforming".
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23463111

http://www.engadget.com/2013/07/26/apple-three-year-low-smartphone-marketshare/

Strategy analytics numbers have been debunked. They made grade school errors in calculating both apples and Samsung's numbers.

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[Rule9]

iPhones aren't going anywhere soon. It would take a combination of continuing at heir snail pace with iOS, along with the competition ramping up their game by numerous orders of magnitude in order for that to happen, simply because they have branding established. But that's not to say it won't eventually happen. Tech giants can be ephemeral and there's quite a lot of former top dog tech companies that are history now or doing very badly. IBM used to be "the" PC name. Alta Vista was "the" search engine. And many other examples. Frankly, the industry's two longest and biggest runners - MS and Apple - appear to be starting to show some of the signs of a tech empire's version of grey hair and a potbelly IMO. I wouldn't be surprised to see Google follow suit within the next decade either.