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This data is very cherry picked and is just a snapshot time period of Apples iPhone 6 Release timeframe

It’s deceptive

But have fun

2014 market share was decidedly android

2015 is mighty early

It's interesting here to contemplate the radically different business models that Apple and Google have.

Google really has no interest in how profitable devices that run Android are. They simply want to capture market share and then collect data and sell advertising to the end users. That's where Google makes their profit. With respect to whether Samsung, HTC, Motorola, or whoever else makes these devices, makes profit, Google couldn't care less. Now Google does throw 30% of the App Store revenue their way (that Apple keeps for themselves) but that's just a few crumbs comparatively speaking.

On the other hand, Apple makes most of their profit on the sale of their devices. They are not concerned as much about market share but their per-unit margins.

This data is very cherry picked and is just a snapshot time period of Apples iPhone 6 Release timeframe

No, it is not. Apple has been taking home the lion's share of profits in the Cell phone industry. . . ALL phones, for the last several years. No cherry picking here. Apple and Samsung have been doing this for quite some time. Now Samsung has blinked as well. . . dropping 19% in this quarter after a drop of 30% in the last quarter. You can't deny the facts.

It is also true that Apple has been taking home at 50% of the profits in the Personal Computer market for quite sometime. In 2012 it was 45% but has grown since then. . . 53% in 2013.

From Forbes Magazine of April 18, 2013:

Apple's Mac Took 45% Of The Profits In The PC Market
This is one of those terribly revealing numbers about business. That Apple AAPL +0.65%‘s Mac took some 45% of all the profits available in the PC business in the last quarter of last year. Add that into the usual figure given for tablets and smartphones, that Apple and Samsung between them take more than 100% of the profits for the sector, and you can begin to see where Apple’s river of cash comes from. . .

. . . and even higher now.

2014 market share was decidedly android

Apple has 51% of the US Market Share. . . by number sold, not profits.

Apple has 24% of the China Market Share.

Apple has 46% of the Japan Market Share.

Apple has 33% of the SOUTH KOREAN Market Share. . . the home market of Samsung and LG.

And all of those are smartphones. Not the 30% smartphone, 40% feature phone, 30% dumb phone product mix that Samsung was forced to reveal in discovery last year by Judge Lucy Koh.