[Swordmaker]

Apple's iPhone has the most absurd market dominance. . . in the profits it commands. With just 13.5% of the worldwide smartphone units shipped Apple takes home 94% of all the profits! -- PING!

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Apple takes home 94% of the profits in smartphones
while selling only 13.5% of the market
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Note: the above chart ignores that Samsung also makes 11% profit of all the Smartphone profits, bringing the total of all smartphone profits to 105%. It unfairly charges all the losses of the rest of the makers against their profits. The chart should, in fairness, show Samsung's profits as its own 11% bar, with the rest of the makers as a negative 5% bar of losses below the line to bring the 105% total BACK DOWN TO the expected 100% for the industry.

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[Swordmaker]

This is how that chart on smartphone profits SHOULD look:

Smartphone 2015 3rd quarter profit chart including Samsung's profits

[ThunderSleeps]

Profit vs sales/market share. - ANDROID PING!
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My takeaway from this is that Android provides the best value for the buyer/user. The manufacturers are selling large volume, low profit percentage per unit. Meanwhile Apple is apparently netting large profits per unit.