“Many of the world’s top smartphone makers used the huge industry trade show held [in Barcelona] this week, Mobile World Congress, to entice buyers around the globe,” Molly Wood reports for The New York Times.
“But despite the conspicuous absence of Apple, its iPhone was the clear target of those announcements. And the iPhone seems unstoppable. A little over a month ago, in what is becoming a familiar pattern, Apple reported record iPhone sales, including an 83 percent increase in sales in China versus the same period last year. According to a report from Canaccord Genuity, an investment firm, Apple might earn as much as 93 percent of the profit in the entire handset industry,” Wood reports. “So, what does that leave for everyone else? A dogfight over scraps.”
“‘The iPhone is capturing the most attractive and profitable customers, leaving the majority of share — but not money — to others,’ said Jan Dawson, chief analyst at Jackdaws Research,” Wood reports. “Here in Barcelona, the Apple shadow was everywhere. The company is, by all accounts, a powerful moneymaking machine and on top of that, and the devices and brand are widely adored. That is a pretty steep hill for anyone else to climb. ‘Other manufacturers just look on in awe,’ said Ben Wood, mobile and wireless analyst at the research firm CCS Insight.”
Much more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: As we’ve written many times, in many varied ways, over a period of many years:
It’s not amassing market share that matters per se, it’s the demographics of the market share you’ve amassed that matters most.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Scott M.” for the heads up.]
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