Apple snags 50% of handset industry profits ahead of first 100M iPhone year

[roadbloc]

Good to see maflynn has been working hard.

 

[vvswarup]

To me that is really meaningless unless the iPhone out sold all 6 of them combined. The 6 Android phones are going to split the sells among each other. Putting 2 Android models means each will only get 50% of the sales and at most you might see a 10% increase in total sells.
Now you have 6 phones split roughly the same total number of possible sales.

People keep making that argument that I quoted but really it means nothing because you have to remember sales are divide up among 6 players.

When talking about profits, it makes sense to look at each individual manufacturer. At the end of the day, it's the manufacturers who have to make money. Google will make its money off of Android regardless of how well the manufacturers are doing.

Comparing profitability is not the same as comparing market share. When it comes to market share, the Android manufacturers are "working" together. But when it comes to profitability, everybody is competing against each other.

Also, if Apple has taken 50% of handset industry profits, that means Apple makes as much money as all the other Android manufacturers combined.

 

[lsvtecjohn3]

How about we focus on what benefits us, the consumers.

You do know it's the carriers for the most part are the ones dishing out big bucks to Apple for every iPhone sold. I saw an atricle were I believe Apple gets over $600 per iPhone sold from Att, Motorola was the next highest on the list they were getting $450 from Verizon for the Droid. I'd guess most other carriers are paying Apple around the same as Att is.

Apple isn't ripping use off we should all thank Apple because they set the bar for the price of the iPhone at $199, $299. If you remember before the iPhone 3G came out smartphones were $350 and up on contract. Now nobody sells a phone higher than the $299 on contact now days.

And this does effect some consumers because some of use are stockholders.

 

[KingCrimson]

You do know it's the carriers for the most part are the ones dishing out big bucks to Apple for every iPhone sold. I saw an atricle were I believe Apple gets over $600 per iPhone sold from Att, Motorola was the next highest on the list they were getting $450 from Verizon for the Droid. I'd guess most other carriers are paying Apple around the same as Att is.

Apple isn't ripping use off we should all thank Apple because they set the bar for the price of the iPhone at $199, $299. If you remember before the iPhone 3G came out smartphones were $350 and up on contract. Now nobody sells a phone higher than the $299 on contact now days.

And this does effect some consumers because some of use are stockholders.

The reason Apple eats $400 per iPhone is because they will make up that loss in the lifetime of the 2-year contract and more so. Also they realize that Apple is what provides the real value, not the network. Before Apple the carriers ruled, now Apple rules the mobile industry with an iron fist.