Apple’s iOS Is Dominating Google’s Android

Between October and December, Apple’s iPhone took a record 89% of smartphone operating profits worldwide. This compared to Android’s 11.3%, which is a record-low. These are the results of a new Strategy Analytics survey by AppleInsider. For Q4 of 2014, smartphone profits reached $21 billion, which is up 31% year over year. Of that, $18.8 billion was collected by Apple, while Android based suppliers took the rest, $2.4 billion. In Q4 of 2013, iOS and the iPhone represented 71% of all smartphone profits, or $11.4 billion. Android’s take at the time was 30% or $4.8 billion. In January of 2015, Apple announced they had sold a record 74.5 million iPhones during the holiday quarter. At the same time, the iPhone’s market share in the United States overtook Android for the first time since 2012.