In terms of mobile phone market share, Apple's mobile phone is not the second, but it has the highest profit. In 2020, Apple's operating income was $365.8 billion, while the profit attributable to the parent company was $94.6 billion. If it is Samsung, the world's number one mobile phone seller, it is still difficult to compare with it.
Why is Apple's mobile phone market share not the first, but it gets the most operating profit? This is related to an important reason. To master the core technology, whether it is IOS system or A-series chips, Apple should do it by itself.
On the contrary, how many domestic enterprises can make chips and mobile phone operating systems for a long time? Huawei Kirin chip and HarmonyOS system only appeared in recent years. By 202 1, the chip could not be produced because of some things, but fortunately there was a mobile operating system, which avoided losing profits in the ecosystem.
At present, the global mobile phone industry is showing a trend, focusing on R&D, innovation and the transition of core technologies relying on the coexistence of third parties. Now both Huawei and Apple have their own chips and operating systems, and they can easily become kings in the market. Mobile phones that rely on chips from Qualcomm and MediaTek often fail to get decent highlights at new product launches, and the operating system is also provided by Google.
It can be said that it is not without reason that Apple's mobile phone operating profit can account for 75%. After Huawei's mobile phone production was blocked, Apple used its own core technology to produce heterogeneous mobile phone products and non-"us" products, which played a positive role in opening up markets and improving corporate profits.