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Apple captured 79% of global smartphone profits in 2016
Posted on 4/8/17 at 1:46 am
Posted on 4/8/17 at 1:46 am
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Apple Inc. captured 79.2 percent of global smartphone profits last year, according to the latest research by Strategy Analytics on Wednesday, highlighting the US technology giant's ability to maximize pricing and minimize production costs.
The global smartphone industry was estimated to have posted total operating profits of $53.7 billion last year, with Apple's operating profit standing at $44.9 billion, the research showed. Apple's operating profit margin stood at 32.4 percent last year.
In comparison, Samsung Electronics Co.'s smartphone business posted an operating profit of $8.3 billion last year, accounting for 14.6 percent of the global profits.
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Apple - $44.9 billion, for 79% of profits
Samsung - $8.3 billion, for 14.6% of profits
Huawei - $929 million, for 1.6% of profits
OPPO - 1.5% of profits
Vivo - 1.3% of profits
Total for the top 5 smartphone makers: 98.2%
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And yet you Android fanboys keep shitting on the iPhone for no apparent reason. If Apple is able to capture almost 80% of the smartphone market profits 10 years after they first introduced the iPhone, they must be doing something right, not withstanding the iPhone-is-for teenage-girls-and-soccer-moms jokes I keep reading here.
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Posted on 4/8/17 at 2:05 am to Street Hawk
Apples security is > android
Posted on 4/8/17 at 2:06 am to Street Hawk
Here you go.
Posted on 4/8/17 at 2:18 am to Street Hawk
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Apple Inc. captured 79.2 percent of global smartphone profits last year
That's actually a huge decrease. They've previously and recently captured as much as 90% - 104%. Sell $AAPL.
Posted on 4/8/17 at 7:03 am to Street Hawk
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posted total operating profits
This is probably not the best indicator of the future of the smartphone market. Apple rips off Americans with overpriced handsets. I thought this was pretty much common knowledge?
Posted on 4/8/17 at 8:36 am to Street Hawk
All that tells me is that you overpaid and continue to overpay for your cell phone.
Posted on 4/8/17 at 9:32 am to Street Hawk
A sucker is born every minute
Posted on 4/8/17 at 9:35 am to Street Hawk
80% of profits is bc it is grossly overpriced. Congrats to Apple. I don't own Apple products bc they are overpriced. I own Apple stock bc fan boys will buy apple products regardless of quality.
Posted on 4/8/17 at 9:44 am to Street Hawk
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Apple - $44.9 billion, for 79% of profits
Translation:
Overpriced
Posted on 4/8/17 at 9:45 am to gobuxgo5
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Apples security is > android
iOS is rarer than Android OS. There's nothing inherently more secure about it; if you're going to create a virus, you'll target the most common OS.
Posted on 4/8/17 at 10:45 am to skrayper
Exactly. As their phone market share continues to decrease. Why bother with such a niche product.
Posted on 4/8/17 at 11:28 am to kengel2
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All that tells me is that you overpaid and continue to overpay for your cell phone.
Yeah, but everyone is doing it!
Posted on 4/8/17 at 11:30 am to Street Hawk
I don't think this study says what you think it says I hope you enjoy your overpriced toy
Posted on 4/8/17 at 12:10 pm to Street Hawk
So this is about profit, not Market Share?
Posted on 4/8/17 at 12:39 pm to Street Hawk
Wouldn't the cost to value of your phone likely be better, if they weren't posting huge profits? Congrats on all of the money they made off of you.
Posted on 4/8/17 at 1:02 pm to Street Hawk
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And yet you Android fanboys keep shitting on the iPhone for no apparent reason. If Apple is able to capture almost 80% of the smartphone market profits 10 years after they first introduced the iPhone, they must be doing something right, not withstanding the iPhone-is-for teenage-girls-and-soccer-moms jokes I keep reading here.
Flawless logic
Posted on 4/8/17 at 1:11 pm to skrayper
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iOS is rarer than Android OS. There's nothing inherently more secure about it; if you're going to create a virus, you'll target the most common OS.
It also only supports their hardware and can control the entire environment.
Lots of different versions of Android in the wild.
Posted on 4/8/17 at 1:36 pm to TigerBait1127
Apple has a lot of buyer power so it isn't a surprise they keep costs low. Profits have two levers...Apple clearly demands a premium price so cost containment just expands the margins.
Posted on 4/8/17 at 8:18 pm to Street Hawk
Apple makes a great product that, once you jail break it, performs nicely.
Posted on 4/8/17 at 9:27 pm to lynxcat
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Apple has a lot of buyer power so it isn't a surprise they keep costs low. Profits have two levers...Apple clearly demands a premium price so cost containment just expands the margins.
Price containment = worse hardware = innovation
This post was edited on 4/8/17 at 9:31 pm
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