Apple’s $100 surcharge gives it nearly all the smartphone profits

The latest smartphone industry profit numbers from Strategy Analytics show Apple is cleaning up like never before, and no wonder.
As if being able to count on millions of people to pay a $100 dollar surcharge on smartphones of similar spec to Android equivalents (32GB iPhone 7 – $649, 32GB Galaxy S7 – $549) wasn’t enough, Apple can now count in its biggest competitor scoring own-goals of epic proportions.
As a result Apple accounted for $8.5 billion of the $9.4 billion total pr