We had previous posts here where Apple surpassed Samsung in Q4. Another post here shows that Apple’s sales “slope” on a graph of sales per quarter, for six quarters back, shows a slope up, while Samsung shows a slope on their graph going down (averaged and for these last six quarters).
In addition to that, we found out in a court case that Samsung was fudging its sales numbers for smart phones by including sales of older-style flip phones and similar types, rolling them into the sales of smartphones.
Apple doesn’t deal in product for the market of old-style phones so has nothing to do with those people. Apple ONLY sells smart phones.
SO ... as it turns out, when you remove Samsung old-style phones from the market figures, Apple has far surpassed Samsung. That’s why Samsung is losing money big time. And that’s also why Apple has 93% of the market’s profit for this kind of phone!
One correction, Star traveler. That 93% figure is the profits for ALL phones regardless of type, not just for the smartphone market.