Not that it should come as a huge surprise, but Apple made out like a bandit in the past two years, according to research firm Counterpoint. It captured the whopping 66% of the smartphone industry’s more than a hundred billion in operating profits for the period, peaking at over 80% during the last holiday quarter, and will probably do the same for this current one.
The team from Cupertino left only a few tens of billions on the table for all the other phone makers to share, and the bulk of what was left went to Samsung’s mobile department.
