A correction to yesterday's show. I said that I'd slept two hours in the previous 24.

It was actually two hours in the previous 36. Sorry about yesterday. Diling a few phone numbers.

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One analyst thinks he's seen a shocking drop in Apple share of smartphone profits.

Anyway, it sounds shocking to me. Barron said Ken Accordinuity analyst

T Michael Walkley saying that Apple's share of the smartphone profit

pie dropped from 84% in the March quarter to 64% in the June quarter.

That's based on estimates from research from Gartner. It's worth noting that those same numbers show

Apple making that 64% of profits with just over 12% of smartphone sales for the quarter.

Still, how the heck did such a huge drop happen?

Barons points out that Samsung's Galaxy S8 came out in the June quarter. Sales of that might be skewing the numbers in the

site's estimation. But a piece from Apple Must adds a bit more color to that. The way that site sees it, there's also demand for mid-priced

smartphones. This demand is being driven by network infrastructure improvement such

as 4G support, currently being rolled out in developing economies.

Developing economies means less money for high-price phones.

If there's one thing an iPhone is, it's high priced.

Apple must says the average price for an iPhone is $606.

Well, the average price for a phone from Samsung is $235,

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