I'm no Apple fanboy, but it always amuses me that the Android boosters talk unit numbers while Apple continues their "BMW" revenues on product. Congrats, you sold 100 Beetles... our sales of 1 BMW generated more profit.
And it seems to work out that way most of the time. If there are two technologies, and one manages to become a commodity that is installed all over, that's the technology that you see innovation coming from and the future coming out of. It is often the worse technology. But it wins.
I don't have a horse in the phone race. But when I see Apple folks talking about profit margins and Android folks talking about units sold, I'd lay my money on Android winning in the long run. It may be a worse market to be in now, it may make a lot less money. But where the users are is where the future tends to be.
This happens for a lot of reasons. Let me give just one. When teenage kids (who don't have a lot of money of their own) get a smart phone, they are going to be given Android devices because it is cheaper. When they play around with those phones and master them, they will be learning Android. Many will stick with Android. Others will learn Android, and their first programming experiences will be with it because that is what they have. And once they grow up they will be worth a lot more than $0, both as customers or developers. But they won't be imprinted on iOS.
If you look at Apple's product line up right now, they are slowly but surely back filling their product line up just like the iPod. Look how that turned out for everyone else.
It's too early to bet on either platform in the long term.
This tells me that the trend you are hoping for in Apple's product line should not be counted on.
For example compare the Mac vs Microsoft Windows. The Mac was better, had better product margins, etc. Microsoft was the commodity and completely owned the market.
For other historical examples compare VMS vs Unix, Lisp vs C, OSI protocols vs TCP/IP, Smalltalk vs Java, traditional client-server vs web apps, CORBA vs SOAP (vs JSON rpcs), Perl vs PHP, and so on. In many cases the losing technology was technically much nicer to work with. But the winning technology won.
For a famous essay reflecting on why, see http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html from the Lisp vs C war.
As for Mac vs Windows, I'm referring to the old macs, OS 7, etc. That story ended with Apple almost dying before Steve Jobs came back and did what he did best - focused the company on creating new markets.
Moving back to your focus on profits, I think you could benefit from reading The Innovator's Dilemma and its followup The Innovator's Solution. What you'll learn is how across many types of technologies (examples include ship design, steel production techniques, earth moving machines, disk drives, etc), across many decades, whenever two technologies compete head to head, the odds very, very strongly favor the one that is cheap and crappy. Throughout the competition, all of the revenue to be made is in the established, strong technology - until they suddenly have no market left.
Given that history, there is no question what to expect in phones. The iPhone is clearly the superior option that makes more money. Android is clearly the cheap crappy option that ships more units. But both are going to improve faster than people's needs increase, and Android is going to win.
Why the apple community feels the need to attack the concept of free market competition I have no idea, I think they just like the sound of the phrase, it's certainly become popular recently without any outward sign that most people who use it even know what it means.
I'm not sure if you are actually asking for an answer here - it seems you think you already know the answer.
Samsung just had record profit last quarter, prior to the Galaxy 3 launch.
They don't break down per phone profit & margin, but:
Samsung's quarterly handset division profits nearly tripled to 4.27 trillion won ($3.8 billion), accounting for 73 percent of total profit, and operating margins jumped to 18.4 percent from 12 percent in the preceding quarter on strong sales of the Galaxy S and the Note phone/tablet, the surprise consumer hit of recent months.[1]
Now 18.4% profit margin isn't as high as Apple's, but OTOH it includes a lot of low end (and less profitable) phones too.
TL;DR? That thing about Apple making most of the profit in the mobile phone market is no longer true.
[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/27/samsung-idUSL3E8FQ...
Because that would be dumb.