Comment Re:You keep using that word.... (Score 1) 445
For both those numbers to be true Apple must be making about 40 times more profit per sale than Android.
And that wouldn't surprise me at all.
Samsung is massively profitable - but almost certainly their margins are lower than Apple's - if only because they develop about ten models for every one Apple model. After all, Apple just has iPhone in two, three incarnations, while Samsung has a whole lineup of phones.
Secondly, there are many, many companies in the Android phone market, many of whom must be loss making. It's just impossible with all that competition for all to be really profitable. That "compensates" for the high profits of Samsung, and pushes the whole Android segment down.