Apple took home 72% of all handset profits last quarter

  • Apple took home 72% of the profits with only 21.7% of unit sales (up from 15.4% in Q3).
  • Samsung's 29% of the profits came from 28.9% of unit sales (down from 32.3% in Q3).
  • 43 cents of every dollar spent in the world on a cellphone in Q4 ended up in Apple's coffers.
  • Samsung got 36 cents. Nokia got 7 cents. All the rest got less than 5.
  • For 2013, Walkley predicts that Apple and Samsung will split 103% of the profits, 69/34.