Apple may be shipping less than 5 percent of the world’s mobile phones and “only” 14 percent of worldwide smartphones but according to a research by Asymco, it managed to grab almost half of the entire industry’s profit share.
While Android fans are cheering the massive rise of their platform through multiple vendors and models, Apple quietly moves towards enlarging its bank account with what is essentially one phone.
HTC isn’t included since their numbers aren’t as comprehensively available as the other manufacturers’.
Market share vs profit. Pick one.