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Profit..

That's amazing. Apple captures 104% of the profits in the smartphone market, Samsung is next in line with... 0.9%.

Everyone else is selling phones at a loss in order to gain more market share.

Probably the most important one: profit. I believe Apple takes most of, if not all of, the profit in mobile phones.

To those citing Apple's profit: it is certainly an important metric.

Nonetheless, there is also another angle to consider: how much a technology enables, by being affordable and accessible.

I live in India. In large parts of this country, smartphone uptake would simply not have happened but for Android's ecosystem.