Apple raking in the mobile profits

This all came about in the past 3 years. The sector moves quickly, Apple will need to stay on the ball because things will keep changing. The UI was Apple's big technology breakthrough with the iPhone, pretty much everything else they offered up until retina display has already been done from a hardware perspective. Very impressive figures though.

That graph must be wrong. The Palm Pre killed the iPhone a long time ago didn't it?

since this is about profits - not user installed base - Android will never surpass Apple in profits. Apple makes money for the hardware. Google makes a much smaller licensing fee for the OS.

One word "Greed' is good.

Apple sold approximately one-twelfth the number of phones, for 22% more profit. That suggests that either (or a bit of both):
- Nokia, Samsung and LG are dead in the water, making hardly any profit from their phones.
- Apple is raking in excess profits in a way that most companies can only dream of. Addicted fans like myself are happy to pay way over the odds - for a very superior product.

Yeah, and the best part is that all those profits came out of your pockets!