<story><title>Samsung warns profit to fall 60%</title><url>http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2019/04/06/2003712873</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sanxiyn</author><text>Comments here are out of their mind. Samsung&amp;#x27;s smartphone business hasn&amp;#x27;t been a profit center for quite some time. Majority of profit came from DRAM and NAND, and profit fall is directly attributable to recent price crash of both.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>foobar1962</author><text>I just had a conversation with somebody who asserted that Apple was bad (proprietary etc) and Samsung was good, and that Apple was 3rd phone maker behind Samsung and Huawei.&lt;p&gt;He may be right about Apple being 3rd, but Apple looks to be the only one making a decent profit from their phones.&lt;p&gt;How do they manage that when they have to pay for both hardware and software development, when all the others get the software for free?</text></comment>
<story><title>Samsung warns profit to fall 60%</title><url>http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2019/04/06/2003712873</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sanxiyn</author><text>Comments here are out of their mind. Samsung&amp;#x27;s smartphone business hasn&amp;#x27;t been a profit center for quite some time. Majority of profit came from DRAM and NAND, and profit fall is directly attributable to recent price crash of both.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chx</author><text>&amp;gt;  price crash of both.&lt;p&gt;Example: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;gp&amp;#x2F;product&amp;#x2F;B07N124XDS&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;gp&amp;#x2F;product&amp;#x2F;B07N124XDS&lt;/a&gt; a few months ago 32GB SODIMM was near unobtanium, a less known brand on eBay alone sold &amp;#x27;em for like 350-375 and now the Samsung ones are on Amazon at below 230 USD. Still has a 25-30% premium over smaller sticks but that&amp;#x27;s expected.</text></comment>