Michal Ždanský During the last quarter of last year, Apple according to Strategy Analytics got a record share of the profit from global smartphone sales. From the total volume, which according to the analysis was 21 billion dollars in the last three months of last year, Apple took 18,8 billion, or less than 89 percent.
He thus significantly improved compared to last year, when he should have reached 70,5 percent in the same period. The results were probably helped by the introduction of iPhones with a larger screen.
Thanks to Apple's percentage increase, on the other hand, manufacturers of Android phones reached a record low. They accounted for only 11,3 percent, or $2,4 billion. Samsung, which has been the most profitable manufacturer of smartphones with the Android operating system for a long time, probably took the biggest bite out of this part of the profit, and for several years they and Apple were practically the only ones to show a profit from smartphone sales. Other manufacturers always ended up either around zero or at a loss.
Furthermore, according to Strategy Analytics not even Microsoft, which did not make any profit on Windows Phone phones under the Lumia brand. It ended up the same as BlackBerry with zero share. Despite the minority share that iOS holds as a platform against Android, Apple managed to capture the majority of the profit thanks to its targeting of the premium segment of the market and thus continues to disprove the assumption of some analysts that the market share of the operating system is far from everything. After all, Apple's personal computer segment also accounts for more than half of all sales profits.
Source: AppleInsider
Photos: Jon Fingas
That sounds nice!
PS: The penultimate sentence doesn't make much sense to me...
He listens. I don't know, I read it.. :-)
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