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It can't be a monopoly when there are countless choices but people choose iPhone anyway.

Fits perfectly!

Characteristics
A monopoly has these five characteristics:

  • Profit maximizer: Maximizes profits.
  • Price maker: Decides the price of the good or product to be sold, but does so by determining the quantity in order to demand the price desired by the firm.
  • High barriers to entry: Other sellers are unable to enter the market of the monopoly.
  • Single seller: In a monopoly, there is one seller of the good, who produces all the output.[4] Therefore, the whole market is being served by a single company, and for practical purposes, the company is the same as the industry.
  • Price discrimination: A monopolist can change the price or quantity of the product. They sell higher quantities at a lower price in a very elastic market, and sell lower quantities at a higher price in a less elastic market.
 
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Quite rightfully so. A great phone with the latest tech at a reasonable price. 👍 It will be interesting to see if it gets overtaken by a rumoured 5.4” model in a year’s time.
 
Fits perfectly!

Characteristics
A monopoly has these five characteristics:

  • Profit maximizer: Maximizes profits.
  • Price maker: Decides the price of the good or product to be sold, but does so by determining the quantity in order to demand the price desired by the firm.
  • High barriers to entry: Other sellers are unable to enter the market of the monopoly.
  • Single seller: In a monopoly, there is one seller of the good, who produces all the output.[4] Therefore, the whole market is being served by a single company, and for practical purposes, the company is the same as the industry.
  • Price discrimination: A monopolist can change the price or quantity of the product. They sell higher quantities at a lower price in a very elastic market, and sell lower quantities at a higher price in a less elastic market.

That literally doesn’t fit. There are THOUSANDS of phones, most of which Apple doesn’t make. They don’t even have a lot of market share. People can choose to use Android, but some don‘t. Apple doesn’t force them to. There are countless options. You’re literally just an Apple hater at this point. You’d probably only be happy if Apple sold barely any iPhones.
 
Who are Omdia, what is the source of all this data, and what does "shipped" mean? Is this hands in the devices of consumers, or devices sitting on shelves in carrier/store warehouses?
 
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The 720p display on the iPhone 11 / Xr is probably the highest quality LCD panel in a smartphone. Turns out most people who buy phones probably don't care about or notice 360 fewer pixel rows.


I had the 5.8 pro model. And I thought that was too small for me. The Pro Max from last year was too big. So the iPhone 11 seemed perfect. And I do not really don’t notice that much difference in the display.
 
Who are Omdia, what is the source of all this data, and what does "shipped" mean? Is this hands in the devices of consumers, or devices sitting on shelves in carrier/store warehouses?
This statistic/presentation is BS... it's just grouping by phone model name. Usually the competition fragments their phone models a lot more than Apple does. So if, for example, Samsung had a Galaxy SX and there are SX+ and SX- which are all the same exact e.g. storage and they each sold 11 units that would be compined 33.

That doesn't change the fact that the iPhone, especially the 11 is an extremely popular phone (and likely it would remain on 1st place), however this is still a good example of how you can make statistics show a desired result.
 
Some things to think about.
1. These are the numbers based on a phone model. If I was looking for a
I’m actually curious for how this happens, didn’t realize it at first glance. The psychology behind it all and all

Could be because after a certain price range saving $100 or $200 isn’t a concern anymore? (although the folding ones and S20+ are high up in there)?
There’s the usual statement “Android gives more cores, more RAM, more megapixels, more everything for less so it’s better”, maybe at this price range, people realize that’s not quite true in real life scenarios? Games sometimes put this to shame, for example, an iPhone SE (the old one) can run some games at 60fps that a “gamer Razr” phone would at 45fps.



That would work if both high end brands wouldn’t be there. Or maybe there’s a hidden extra piece of info in it, along the lines of “iPhone users lost less jobs overall during pandemic” OR “iPhone users don’t look to spend as little as possible during pandemic compared to Android”.
I think it's more about the numbers for Android is being spread amongst more devices. Meanwhile, Apple is the only one making phones with iOS.

Ie. if I want a phone with iOS, my options are only iPhones. But if I want an Android phone, I have various brands to choose from. Just guessing, though.
 
Clearly, the non-Pro iPhone is a sweet spot. Not surprising. It is a really great device missing only a few features most users [obviously] don't care much about.
 
Assuming an ASP of $900, that iPhone 11 Pro alone (not even counting the max) is already $6B in revenue, in half a year. I for one would love to have that kind of business.
It's 1/5 of iphone 11 revenue aprox. $30B
 
I think the trend will continue to head downwards in terms of prices.

The iPhone 12 5.4” will probably be the top seller.

The pro models are more niche for those who must have the top of the line stuff.
 
Good question. However, manufacturers (in general) do offer high-end products that appeal to a small minority of their customer base.
Don't forget, a lot of the internals in iPhone 11 Pro and 11 are similar. It probably doesn't cost them that much more to make two versions of roughly the same hardware.
 
This is where you can see the difference between Android buyers and iOS buyers. It seems that buyers are willing to spend on iPhones regardless of economic condition.
 
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Apple kicked off a new Trade-In Program in early-Jan of 2019, which took time to become Common Knowledge.

Much of the surge in 2020 can be attributed to that Trade In Program.

ONLY a few so-called Pro Stock Analysts who cover AAPL for a living have ever mentioned this very important fact !
 
I'm not surprised - it strikes a really good balance between price and features (with a really great Camera). Once my mother and sister saw some of the pictures I took with my phone, they both upgraded their phones to an 11.
 
Wow, Apple just killing it, selling 3.5 times as many units as the next best seller, even though iPhone 11 is $700+

These are units SHIPPED, not sold. Most of them are probably sitting in the backs of stockrooms and in warehouses. Shipped means nothing, you want to look at sales.
 
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