Apple Captures 75% of Global Handset Market Operating Profit in Q2 2021
...with only a 13% share of units.<p>That is, all other vendors together sold 87% of units, but earned only a combined 25% of industry-wide profit.<p>The vast majority of those other vendors are companies headquartered in Asian countries with a long history of promoting market share, access to information, and knowledge transfer at the expense of short-term profit. They might be making less money willingly to grow&#x2F;maintain volume, grow&#x2F;maintain access to a large volume of user data, and acquire&#x2F;maintain expertise.