I Phone, like a gold nugget

Apple continues to dominate the global smartphone market unchallenged. Despite the rise in prices of its latest models, people continue to dominate the revenue front by far with an increasingly clear separation from the competition. According to estimates of Strategy Analytics, the fourth quarter 2017 Apple holds a share of 19 percent of the global smartphone market, accounting for 51 percent of total revenue. In other words, Apple's revenues from smartphone sales far outweigh those of all competitors put together (Samsung, Huawei etc.). According to Telecoms.com, in the fourth quarter, 2017 Apple has totaled 87 percent of the total operating profits of the global smartphone market. Translated into figures, according to Strategy Analytics, iPhone sales in the fourth quarter of last year generated revenues for 61 billions of dollars, driven by a solid demand from the latest iPhone X model, and for this Apple alone collects more of all the competitors put together.

In the last three months of the 2017 Apple has generated revenues three times higher than the second global manufacturer, namely Samsung, and seven times more than Huawei. The average selling price of the iPhone is 800 dollars, three times more than the average price of the rest of the global industry. The Apple iPhone is an incredible money machine, summarizes Strategy Analytics. A framework certainly not exciting for Apple's competitors, especially since the first beneficiary of sales of Android smartphones is Google (the Android operating system is owned by Google). Apple, by contrast, controls its ecosystem based on the iOS proprietary operating system.

I Phone, like a gold nugget