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Originally Posted by Graham
Hmm, I'm not sure about that. In the US maybe, but as the stats in the other thread show, I'm sure they wish they had a larger, more lucrative slice of the pie in other countries, and especially in China.
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Larger is nowhere near the same as more lucrative.
http://arstechnica.com/business/2012...ales-shoot-up/
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Samsung and Apple may be duking it out for the number one slot in smartphone sales (particularly due to the collapse of Nokia), but the two leaders have an astonishing combined 99 percent of global handset profits for Q1 2012. Of that, Apple took in 73 percent of global handset profits, despite having just 9 percent of global handset market share, according to new quarterly analysis from Canaccord.
That’s just one of the fascinating details that analysts have unearthed in the season of quarterly reports. According to IDC, in Q1 2012 Samsung shipped almost four times as many units—42.2 million—as it did in Q1 2011 (11.5 million). But while Apple may have shipped fewer units (after all, the company has less than 10 percent of global smartphone market share), Juniper Research reports that Apple’s Q1 2012 iPhone revenue was $22.7 billion, about a third higher than Samsung’s $16.7 billion from its entire mobile division. Naturally, profits always trump units shipped.
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Apple are making more money from Smartphone sales than anyone else, because they are sticking to the high-end market. Samsung are shifting an impressive number of units, but many of them are low-end models, which aren't making them much money.