WITH APPLE REAPING A 92% PROFIT FOR ITS SMARTPHONE SOLD WORLDWIDE AND THE COMPETITION FROM SAMSUNG ONLY 15%, AND THE REST WITH PROFIT LOSS–EVEN WHEN SAMSUNG OWNS THE SMARTPHONE MARKET SALES OF 21% VERSUS APPLE AT 14%–THE APPLE CORE LOOKS TO BE UNSTOPPABLE

There are an estimated 1,000 smartphone manufacturers around the world. The playing field became overcrowded as the devices gained in popularity and became essential to people's lives. But only a small number of manufacturers make a profit.
When market researcher Canaccord Genuity analyzed the first-quarter earnings of eight major smartphone makers, it found that Apple reaps 92 percent of the total operating profit in the industry. Samsung came a distant second with 15 percent. The total is more than 100 because the remaining six posted operating losses.

In terms of volume, Samsung accounts for a whopping 21 percent of the global smartphone market, with Apple behind at 14 percent. But when it comes to profitability the picture is very different.
Apple makes its staggering profits by selling only premium phones. Samsung has made endless attempts to catch up with Apple, making its phones thinner and lighter, mounting them with high-resolution cameras, trying to curve the gadgets and coating their backs with leather, but all to no avail. 

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