This is a fascinating little number I feel. Apple takes 71% of all the current profits being made in the smartphone industry. Apple collects 71% of the world's smartphone profits, analysts reckon; Even though Samsung ships the most phones, it takes 37%; Taiwan's HTC gets 1%. (That total exceeds 100% because it's offset by losses at Nokia, BlackBerry-maker RIM, Motorola, Sony, LG and others.) It's an entirely incorrect number of course, unless we're very careful about the parameters we're using. The people who mine and process the tantalum to make the capacitors are making profits and they're making profits from smartphones' demand for capacitors. And the people who make the screens and even more the people who provide the airtime ...