Some of the difference – not sure how much exactly – can certainly be explained with the fact that Apple is only selling smart phones. That’s why RIM (4% vs 14%

Some of the difference – not sure how much exactly – can certainly be explained with the fact that Apple is only selling smart phones. That’s why RIM (4% vs 14%) and and HTC (2% vs 5%) also have less market share than profit share. Nokia sells massive amounts of cheap dumb phones and has correspondingly less profit than market share (15% vs 32%). (To make the same profit Apple makes with a $750 iPhone – assuming a 30 percent margin in both cases – Nokia has to sell ten $75 phones. If that were the only thing they are selling Nokia would need ten times the market share of Apple to have the same profit share.)