2018-03-02 label: Mobile Apple source: Mobile China
Canaccord Genuity released data showed that in the fourth quarter of 2017, apple grabbed 87% of the profits of the global smartphone industry, while Apple iPhone accounted for only 17.9% of the total sales. Canaccord Genuity believes that this is mainly due to the release of iPhone X and iPhone 8 series of mobile phones. In the third quarter, apple cellphones accounted for about 72% of their profits and 15 percentage points in the fourth quarter.

                                                                   iPhone X

Analyst Michael Wakely (Michael Walkley) pointed out: "because of the high price and the further improvement of manufacturing efficiency, coupled with strong sales and the accession of iPhone X, we believe that Apple's high gross margins can be maintained. In the high-end smartphone market, Apple has the largest share, its status will further stabilize, and its installed capacity will increase by two digits in the fourth quarter. At the end of 2017, we believe that the installed capacity of iPhone has exceeded 636 million units.

                                                           Q4 global smartphone sales in Gartner:2017

According to the data released by Gartner, a world-renowned information technology research and consultant company, the total sales volume of smart phones in the fourth quarter of 2017 was 408 million. Samsung still ranked the top in smartphone sales, and the market share increased from 17.8% in the previous year to 18.2%. Followed by apple, a slight increase in market share increased from 17.8% to 17.9%. Although Samsung has more sales than apple, Samsung has only second profit in the global smartphone market, about 10%. Other manufacturers are more miserable and share the remaining 3% profit share.