Apple's Share of Mobile Phone Profits Rises to 93% on iPhone 6 Launch

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Why is no one else able to make money selling smart phones even after all these years? Even Samsung has dropped to single digits.

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Apple is crushing the Dog eaters in Japan. It's so bad Samsung is actually now losing money there and about to pull out.

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Having seen profits slip due to its falling mobile sales, the flailing South Korean tech giant is reportedly considering throwing in the towel altogether in Japan, where it’s struggling more than elsewhere.

Samsung currently represents a miniscule 4 percent of the Japanese smartphone market, which puts it in sixth place. According to sources with Samsung, staying in Japan is actually losing rather than gaining the company money.

While Samsung hasn’t traditionally been a top-seller in Japan, here in 2015 it’s doing worse than ever: with the company’s favorite metric, marketshare, shrinking from 17 percent two years ago to low single digits today.


Apple, on the other hand, is doing well — even in the face of Japanese customers’ preference for homegrown brands. Despite once being considered a market where Apple couldn’t give its products away for free, the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus have proved to be monster hits among Japanese consumers. Late last year, the iPhone 6 held seven of the top eight smartphone positions in the country (and nine out of the top 14).

Apple has been so impressed by Japanese sales, in fact, that in 2014 it shifted its chief of sales for Japan and Korea to North America, where it was hoped they could carry over some of their winning sales magic.

In the quarter ending in December, it was claimed that the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus was outselling Samsung’s Galaxy S5 and Note 4 by a 5-to-1 ratio.

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Why is no one else able to make money selling smart phones even after all these years?

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I think there are 2 answers. First, Apple's success and market share allows them to get favorable deals from suppliers like nobody else. Second, Android phones sell based on specs, so they constantly have to put the latest tech and the most tech in all of their phones. iPhones sell based on the brand. I didn't even realize the iPhone 6 was up to 1 GB of RAM until someone here talked about it only have having 1 GB the other day. If a Android phone maker tried to sell a phone with 1 GB of RAM it'd be a free phone. Not trying to get sidetracked into the iOS vs. Android and RAM requirements debate, just trying to point out that Apple is able to sell what the market clearly considers a competitive product with "lower quality" parts in many areas. Although it certainly uses higher quality parts in other areas.

Love my iphone 6.

Idgaf about the brand. But I will say imessaging has changed the game for me in selecting my phone. Automatically imessaging people with iphones is so nice.

Sure, there are messaging apps out there, plenty of em. But apple having it built in to your texting makes it far superior and easier. I wish all my friends had iphones honestly.