Apple fanboys vs HTC fandroids. Crackberry junkies vs Nokia cheerleaders. All of them have their arguments and neverending doses of absurdly blind faith in a company. But who is actually winning this race? Who is actually the dominant smartphone manufacturer?

It’s hard to tell.

See, whenever you take into accounts a couple of factor, you get one more picture of ways things are. Here you will find that Samsung is gaining market share faster than all its competitors, but their profit share growth is taking place. Then you definately can see that Apple is gaining market share at a very good rate, but their profit share growth dwarfs everyone else. The iPhone is one popular smartphone, with a hefty profit.

Asymco, who produced these graphics, argues you can pair manufacturers in keeping with their current growth vectors (inside the chart above, you will find those pairs by color). Consistent with them, Apple is destroying Nokia, while RIM is crunching Sony Ericsson , and Samsung is doing a similar with Motorola. HTC and LG are doing something down there too, but both are doing it slowly, so let’s ignore them for some time.

The fight for true domination

When you investigate their 2007 vs 2010 comparison, things get even better:

Why better? Because despite its star status, Apple continues to be not the dominant player. Nobody is. Unlike with computers-where Microsoft still dominates-there remains no emperor inside the smartphone empire. Apple is in a good position to assert that crown, but the game remains to be open.

One last thought: Watching Nokia, I will’t help to think that the CEO and his execs were complete imbeciles. If they’d snatched Palm before Hewlett Packard-and scrap their stupid, outdated, horrible Symbian-they may have probably retained the dominant position they lost so quickly. That is too bad, because they always made good hardware. [ Asymco ]

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