steve1977 8 hours ago

That’s true, but that includes many low-cost devices, a market segment in which Apple clearly is not interested.

tooltalk 17 hours ago

very weird indeed. Apple has ~20% of the global smartphone sales, but 80% of global industry profit.

pareto?

  • makeitdouble 12 hours ago

    > 80% of global industry profit.

    Are you thinking about the "services", aka mostly mobile casinos ?

    I never saw a figure of Apple making 80% of profit on the devices, I'd love to see where you get the number from.

    • tooltalk 11 hours ago

      No services. Or profit margin.

      Apple is the most profitable company in the smartphone business and, while their "unit sales" or market share accounts for only about 20%, Apple's share of the smartphone industry's profit is about 80+%.

      • makeitdouble 5 hours ago

        If what you mean by "smartphone business" is neither unit sales nor services, I'd really need you to point at some specific report to understand what we're talking about.