But the conditions are not at all analogous. Apple has not ever had a high market share, yet has 93% of the last quarter of 2014 of ALL phone profits. You don't seem to grasp the differences in the markets. The companies you were talking about never had anything like that disparity or the longevity of such a disparity as Apple and the continued growth of Apple. NONE of the had the margins that Apple has maintained since the iPhone was released. Sorry, not the same story at all.
Your pet theory of specific cell phone companies having a Hay Day in the sun is nothing. . . and not true to history.
Nokia was killed by not moving forward with multi-touch screen technology until it was too late. Motorola didn't move into the smartphone market and stuck with the dumb/feature phone market. They just didn't move at all. Even when Apple tried to help them by making an iTunes phone with them, Motorola sabotaged the effort by limiting the number of tunes to 100. . . and refusing Apple's help on user interface. They made a "Feature Phone," because they knew better.
If you exclude the app-less wonders like Blackberry, Symbian and Palm OS, which are more feature phones+, these are the market shares for smartphones from 2007 onwards:
| Year | Android (Google) | iOS (Apple) | Windows Mobile/Phone (Microsoft) |
| 2007[97] | 0.00% | 18.33% | 81.67% |
| 2008[97] | 0.00% | 40.90% | 59.10% |
| 2009[98] | 14.55% | 53.27% | 32.17% |
| 2010[99] | 53.26% | 36.93% | 9.81% |
| 2011[100] | 69.13% | 28.11% | 2.76% |
| 2012[101] | 75.43% | 21.74% | 2.83% |
| 2013[101] | 80.68% | 16.04% | 3.28% |
| 2014 Q1[102] | 82.11% | 15.67% | 2.22% |
| 2014 Q2[103][104] | 83.31% | 14.28% | 2.42% |
| 2014 Q3[87] | 84.12% | 12.85% | 3.04% |
You are denying that Motorola owned the cell phone market in the 80's? You are denying that Nokia owned the mobile phone market from the late 90's until the late 2008 time frame?