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Tag: iPhone profit share

Apple iPhone dominates with 85% smartphone profit share

Friday, August 4, 2023 10:10 am1 Comment

With 85% share, Apple was, by far, the single-largest contributor to profitability, up from 84% last quarter and 81% in the same quarter…

Apple’s influence is greater than iPhone unit sales figures suggest

Friday, November 16, 2018 8:32 amFriday, November 16, 20185 Comments

The iPhone may bring in more than 60 per cent of Apple’s revenues…

Apple’s smartphone market share dinged ahead of delayed iPhone X launch

Tuesday, December 5, 2017 9:58 am3 Comments

Apple’s delayed launch of the iPhone X hurt the iPhone market share around the world…

How long will Jimmy Iovine stay with Apple?

Thursday, July 6, 2017 10:00 am21 Comments

Talking to Iovine about his career and the energy that propelled his shifts from engineer to producer…

Apple may seek to pay labels less as Apple Music subscriptions rise

Thursday, June 22, 2017 4:32 pmThursday, June 22, 20179 Comments

Apple Inc. is seeking to reduce record labels’ share of revenue from streaming…

How important is Apple’s iPhone market share?

Monday, May 29, 2017 11:10 am6 Comments

Michael Walkley, Canaccord Genuity’s Apple analyst, estimates how much the major smartphone providers…

Analyst: ‘Apple has Samsung on the ropes like never before’

Thursday, February 23, 2017 1:01 pmThursday, February 23, 201714 Comments

Apple’s biggest competitor is reeling…

If Apple owns nearly all of the profits, how do the other phone makers stay in business?

Wednesday, February 8, 2017 4:26 pmWednesday, February 8, 201724 Comments

In China, the largest smartphone market on planet earth, the top sellers sell plenty but struggle to make money…

Apple took 92% of smartphone industry’s profits in Q416

Tuesday, February 7, 2017 1:00 pmTuesday, February 7, 20176 Comments

Shares of Apple are up $1.64, or 1.3%, at $131.94, inching closer to that all-time high…

Beleaguered Samsung’s mobile woes rooted in hardware legacy, little understanding of software

Tuesday, December 22, 2015 4:44 pmTuesday, December 22, 201519 Comments

Interviews with former and serving Samsung employees paint a picture of confusion and overlap between competing divisions…

South Korea to probe Apple contracts with iPhone repair providers

Wednesday, December 9, 2015 8:25 amWednesday, December 9, 20154 Comments

South Korean regulators will investigate Apple Inc.’s relationships with local phone repair companies…

Samsung woos investors with promises of future innovations that Apple already ships

Monday, November 23, 2015 11:30 amMonday, November 23, 20158 Comments

Last week the Samsung’s 2015 Investors Forum allowed executives from the South Korean company…

Beleaguered Samsung axed 5,000 employees over last year – with more cuts on the way

Friday, November 20, 2015 2:00 pmFriday, November 20, 20157 Comments

One thing for sure is that more Samsung executives will leave the company…

Apple to close in on Samsung in worldwide smartphone market share in 2016 – researcher

Friday, November 20, 2015 8:38 am6 Comments

Total smartphone shipments for 2015 are projected to decline by 9.7% to 1.286 billion units…

Apple’s iPhone: The most absurd dominance ever and it’s getting even more absurd

Thursday, November 19, 2015 10:29 amWednesday, June 8, 202233 Comments

Apple earns more than 800% (8-fold) Samsung’s profit from the smartphone industry…

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