Visualizing Apple's Dominance

Apple can command a handsome premium for its iPhones -- a saving grace in the company’s latest earnings report, which notified investors that iPhone sales might decline for the first time. The iPhone carries prices more than three times that of rival Android phones (making sheer volume sales less important financially for Apple than it is for its competitors).

Just look at revenue and unit share for Apple and Samsung, Apple's strongest competitor (based on quarterly data from financial services company Canaccord Genuity). Among leading smartphone manufacturers, Apple takes 60 percent of the sector's revenue on just 20 percent of the sector's unit sales (or about 14 percent of the world's overall smartphone market). Samsung, on the other hand, snares 26 percent of the sector's revenue, on 43 percent of the sector's unit sales.