Hasta La Gadget!

Take look at the above chart. See that thin little red sliver? That’s Apple. It represents the number of iPhones that Apple sold between the months of January and June of this year. Seventeen million. Now that’s nothing to sneeze at, certainly, but it’s easily dwarfed by the blue slice–that’s Nokia, Samsung, and LG. The three handset manufacturers moved a total of 400 million phones in that time period.

Now, granted, Apple’s slice is only one company with, essentially, one product in that category–the iPhone. The blue slice, on the other hand, is three, all of which have a plethora of phone models. Still, the difference is staggering.

It really starts to get interesting, however, when you look at the second chart:

This one is the profits made by handset manufacturers over that same time period. The red slice is still Apple in this one. The company managed to snag 39 percent of industry profits–that’s seven percent more than Noka, Samsung, and LG combined. It’s a full ten percent more than the rest of the industry (outside of those for companies) combined.

Who said pie charts can’t be fun? Certainly not Steven P. Jobs.