sounds like an ok deal , but still looking for something more CQB <| sep |> I hope they don ' t come . We have enough psychotic sjw ' s here <| sep |> Because this headline isn ' t true ? <| sep |> So where i pointed out it was impossible for all companies to be making only cents per unit . How was I wrong ? You weren ' t wrong , necessarily . You just failed to prove anything . You gave no example of any Android manufacturer who was making reasonable profits and provided no source . Your maths , as I have said , was sitting atop a pile of faulty assumptions , starting with the assumption that all the phone manufacturers were making the same profit as LG that is , 1 cent , yet I ' ve said a few times that Samsung is doing okay although that was only up until their phones started exploding . The article says Huawei was second best after Apple . Let ' s look at their financials . Huawei doesn ' t break out how well their phones are doing compared to their other products , so all we have is a profit margin for the whole company , which is phonerevenuesgrowth . However , the phones were dragging that profit margin down . From the aforelinked article . Its rise has come with costs . With lots of expensive storefronts and retail deals , Huawei ' s model of selling phones is closer to Samsung than Xiaomi which until recently was onlineonly . The number of outlets selling Huawei globally increased by 116 % to 35 , 000 stores as of May this year , the company said . That likely explains why Huawei ' s operating margins plummeted six percentage points to 12 % the first half of this year compared to the same period in 2015 . Also note that phones dragged down the profits for the entire company , even though . Huawei ' s smartphone shipments jumped 25 % in the first half of the year to 61 millionSo , the number of phones went up by a full 25 %, yet the profit margins sunk enough to drag the profits for the entire company down 6 points to 12 %. More phones , less percentage profits . That ' s got to be a crap profit margin on the phones and clearly less that 12 %. Not conclusive , mind , but extremely suggestive .