As for the most popular smartphone platform, android took first place with 53.2% and Apple second with 44.6%. According to new data from comScore MobiLens, Apple has taken the top spot as the most popular OEM among U.S. smartphone subscribers. The other OEM's in the top five include LGat 10.3%, Motorola at 4.3%, and HTC at 2.3% market share. If Apple has the 'super cycle' that analysts are predicting with this year's iphone offerings, we could see iOS come closer to becoming the most popular platform in the U.S. Compared to the data ending in October 2016 Apple has grown its share 2%, while Samsung has declined 2.3%.
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Apple captures 79% of global smartphone profits last year
Apple Inc. captured 79.2 percent of global smartphone profits last year, according to the latest research by Strategy Analytics on Wednesday, highlighting the US technology giant's ability to maximize pricing and minimize production costs. OPPO took 1.5 percent of the global profits, while its rival Vivo accounted for 1.3 percent, according to the research. The global smartphone industry was estimated to have posted total operating profits of $53.7 billion last year, with Apple's operating profit standing at $44.9 billion, the research showed. Apple's Iphone (Yonhap)Apple's operating profit margin stood at 32.4 percent last year.In comparison, Samsung Electronics Co.'s smartphone business posted an operating profit of $8.3 billion last year, accounting for 14.6 percent of the global profits.Samsung is still reeling from the global recall of the Galaxy Note 7 smartphone, which was discontinued in October last year over safety concerns. The South Korean tech giant's operating profit margin stood at 11.6 percent last year, while its annual sales of smartphones fell to $71.6 billion from $75.2 billion in 2015.Profitability at Chinese smartphone makers is still low, although their cheaper handsets are rapidly gaining market share.Huawei posted an operating profit of $929 million last year, accounting for 1.6 percent of global profits.
IDC NZ: Apple takes top smartphone vendor spot for first time since 2012medium text large textThe smartphone market in 2017 looks almost guaranteed to be extremely competitive, with stakes heating up between the three main vendors. For the first time since 2012, Apple was the number one smartphone vendor in the fourth quarter of 2016, according to IDC's recently published fourth quarter smartphone shipment results. Apple shipped 221,000 smartphones, Samsung fell to the number two position with 176,000 smartphone shipments, and Huawei closed the number three gap significantly reaching 143,000 smartphone shipments. Despite looking quite similar to the iphone 6s, it seems updated specifications were enough to entice many consumers to upgrade their Apple smartphone. In total, vendors shipped a record high volume of 672,000 smartphones during October to December 2016, representing an increase from 614,000 smartphones shipped over the same period the year earlier.
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