Apple’s profits are from multiple sources not just phones same as when you compare with primarily Android proprietary and licensed OEMs profits.
You are incorrect, I was only referring to iPhone profits.
iPhone profits currently dwarfs all other android oema, Samsung Mobiles profits as I mentioned has tanked this year due to poor sales of their premium smartphone line, which have had a negative cascading effect on Samsung semiconductor and Samsung display which are responsible for the supplying components.
Look at their financials, It’s not even close.
Samsung q1 2019-q3 2019
Here are some for Samsung tanking this year.
I even included Samsung admitting that no one is buying their premium products.
. I’m also not sure where you’re getting a $400 figure as premium space as I’d argue that bar has been raised industrywide to somewhere in the $600-700 range.
It’s the industry standard, smartphones priced over $400 and and higher are considered to be in the premium smartphone segment.
Here is last years break down of the premium segment.
And here is last quarter.
The Apple brand is considered premium and the reason for higher prices is the overall business model since they’re able to control their business model since it’s almost entirely closed or locked down.
Actually the reason for higher prices are higher priced components. Even though the iPhone 11 Pro cost much more than an iPhone 8 at launch, both have profit margins in the 30% range. Again you can find that in the financials.
The iPhone is called premium because the cheapest phone Apple sell is over $400 which would put apples entire iPhone range in the premium smartphone segment.
The components and specs are really behind much of Android development wise but much of that is wasted in the Android business model since device hardware and software isn’t nearly as optimized.
That’s actually not true either. Don’t know why android users prefer to parrot it about.
Android hardware is inferior compared to the iPhone, has been for quite some time.
-Apple cpu with their ridiculous 8 core npu is considered industry leading and is at least two years ahead of what Qualcomm is putting out. Samsung recently terminated their custom mongoose cpu cores, they just can’t compete.
-Apple is also the only smartphone manufacturer that is using nvme based storage on a phone, everyone else uses the inferior Ufs standard, because it’s cheaper. Excited to see the performance gains with new pcie 4.0 based nvme storage for the next iPhone
-The display used on the new iPhone has double the avg peak brightness compared to any other android flagship, you can really see the difference in side by side comparisons on you tube. And is the only smartphone capable of Dolby vision. 800 nits available to the iPhone compared to only 400 for android flagships. It is a substantial difference in day to day use.
-the iPhone pro is the only smartphone with all 4 cameras capable of 4k60 and are color calibrated to match.
-Apple has been shipping a 3D facial recognition biometric solution on their iPhones for a while now, the competition still hasn’t caught up.
-the only smartphone currently with an ultra wide band chip
-the only smartphone with a polished Stainless Steel chassis. Samsung actually claimed the note 10 had a stainless steel frame, it’s aluminum.
- outstanding battery life, the iPhone pro beats the note 10+ by about 2 hours, while the iPhone pro max surpasses it by a 4 hours.
So to recap, the processor, gpu, npu, display, speakers, battery, 3D facial recognition, stainless steel frame, and cameras are all superior components and outperform the competition yet you claim Apple is behind android in hardware development.
because of extra ram
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I’m not even going to bring up the Apple Watch or the AirPods.
I would advise you do a bit of research, seems your relying on outdated or inaccurate information. Good luck.