Apple's smartphone market share is expected to decline over the next three years.
It's interesting to note that while Apple only enjoyed 13.6% of the world's share of UNITS in 2014, they had 30.4% of sales dollars in 2014. In other words, they charge a lot more for their stuff... despite having similar or even less functionality.
Apple spends a lot in marketing, so their stuff costs a lot to make up for those costs. That's all fine... their choice.
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If the rest of the all the smartphone manufacturers in the world can get by on their 7% of the profits, while Apple, by itself, gets 93% of the profits in the smartphone market ... well ... more power to them ... LOL ...
You say this because you don't like the Apple OS, it's ecosystem. I love Apple's OS and how all my things integrate. Again, I have to point you back to JD Powers: despite making many versions of their computer, Apple comes in FIRST in customer satisfaction ... way, way beyond that given for its competitors. Check it out sometime.
Apple was “expected” to go out of business for the last 30 years ... LOL ...
I’ll take what Apple is doing by being WILDLY SUCCESSFUL ... and ... I do expect to hear those same idiots predicting Apple going out of business for the next 30 years ... :-) ...
They said that three years ago too. And they said it the next year and the year after.
The rest of the phone market is LOSING MONEY, CementJungle. There are only THREE phone makers making money. . . Apple, Samsung, and Xiaomi. . . and Xiaomi makes a profit only by stealing the intellectual property they use to make their phones.