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by makeitdouble 204 days ago
> 80% of global industry profit.

Are you thinking about the "services", aka mostly mobile casinos ?

I never saw a figure of Apple making 80% of profit on the devices, I'd love to see where you get the number from.

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No services. Or profit margin.

Apple is the most profitable company in the smartphone business and, while their "unit sales" or market share accounts for only about 20%, Apple's share of the smartphone industry's profit is about 80+%.

If what you mean by "smartphone business" is neither unit sales nor services, I'd really need you to point at some specific report to understand what we're talking about.
>The Cupertino, California-based tech giant collected 85% of operating profit and 48% of revenue from smartphone sales over the course of the year. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-03/iphone-gr...

>However, it outperformed a struggling smartphone market in terms of shipment, revenue and operating profit growth, in turn achieving its highest-ever shares of 18%, 48% and 85% in these metrics respectively, in 2022.

https://counterpointresearch.com/en/insights/2022-global-sma...

Almost three year old numbers, but not all that much should have changed since then.