How long can Apple make big money from iPhones
iPhone Drops to 15% Market Share as Smartphone Market Goes Flat.
The prediction is that in 3 years (2020) iPhone will down to 7% market share, the rest 93% are all Android phones.
The latest data from research firm IDC reveals that Apple’s smartphone market share dropped to 15.3 percent in the March quarter as the worldwide smartphone market fell nearly flat during the first three months of 2016.
This is iPhone 7, price at 700 USD.
Market share:
Apple’s annual profits fall for first time in 15 years as iPhone sales decline
Company has sold 45.5m iPhones in current quarter, down 5% from last year as analysts worry that the world has reached ‘peak Apple’
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/oct/25/apple-profits-sales-decline-2016-iphone-7
苹果宣布：减产10%
2016年是苹果公司年利润第一次同比下跌，连续增长了14年，在这一刻宣布停止了. 2015年苹果公司总利润为537亿美元。而2016年苹果公司总利润为457亿美元，暴跌80亿.
http://www.backchina.com/news/2017/01/05/468589.html
富士康，是苹果最大的代工者。富士康至少在中国内地37个城市有投资，其中在深圳大约30万人；此外在郑州、成都也分别有大约20万雇员。富士康在内地的雇员总数，一直维持在100万人以上，是内地最大的民企雇主。
而根据统计，华为在今年第三季，只占了美国市场的0.4%。苹果以39%位居第一，第二是三星的23%。
美国是全球最大的高档（售价500美元以上）手机市场，一旦成功进占美国市场，将可助华为在5年之内超越苹果和三星，成为全球最大的手机生产商。
华为驻美高管余承东早前接受访问时说：“要在美国建立信心，是需要时间的。”
Samsung and Apple’s grip on smartphone market slips to less than one in three sales
Samsung and Apple are slowly losing their duopolistic control of the smartphone market, with the world’s two biggest manufacturers accounting for less than a third of all sales in recent months.
Analysts at Gartner said that both companies had seen significant falls in market share amid competition from China in the third quarter of 2016.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/11/17/samsung-and-apples-grip-on-smartphone-market-slips-to-less-than/
IDC: Smartphone shipments up 1% in Q3 2016, Samsung’s lead over Apple shrinks due to Note7 fiasco
The latest quarterly figures come from IDC, which summarized its findings in the following chart:
http://venturebeat.com/2016/10/26/idc-smartphone-shipments-up-1-in-q3-2016-samsungs-lead-over-apple-shrinks-due-to-note7-fiasco/
Apple iPhone Seen Losing Market Share Through 2020
Samsung’s Galaxy Note Edge smartphone
Huawei Mate 9 Porsche Design
http://www.investors.com/news/technology/click/apple-iphone-seen-losing-market-share-through-2020/