Apple Grabs 93% of the Handset Industry's Profit, Report Says

Samsung took the rest, but its share is shrinking, the report said.

Canaccord Genuity’s report on industry profits a year ago estimated that Apple took 87.4 percent of phone earnings in the fourth quarter of 2013, while Samsung took in 32.2 percent of industry profits. (The numbers add up to more than 100 percent because Apple and Samsung combined made more money than other competitors lost.)

The report said total government requests for data rose by 40 percent, to about 2,881, compared with the company’s last report, in July.Read more…

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