It turns out that two thirds of the devices that make up Android’s 81 percent market share are cheap “junk phones”. The cause of the discrepancy between market share and profit lies in the second half of the IDC market share statement about Android. Apple and Samsung combined actually add up to more than 100 percent of all profit for the mobile industry, because all of the other players, like HTC, LG, Motorola, Nokia, and BlackBerry lost money. Samsung made 53 percent of the profit for the quarter. The profit data illustrates how Apple’s primary rival is really Samsung-not Android. Data from Canaccord Genuity shows that during that same period-Q3 of 2013-Apple made more money than all of its competitors combined, taking in 56 percent of the profit in the mobile device market.
The reality is that Apple is quite comfortable with the market share data, because the profit numbers are all Apple.
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