Samsung manufacturing arms poised to make $4 billion more from iPhone X than Galaxy S8

If estimates and supplier predictions are correct, Samsung is poised to reap $14.3 billion in parts delivery alone from just the iPhone X through 2019, with the Galaxy S8 gathering only $10.1 billion.

According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, citing data by Counterpart Research, Samsung is expected to be the supplier of $110 in parts per iPhone X, including the display, chips, batteries, and capacitors from Samsung itself and an assortment of Samsung affiliates. The Galaxy S8 has $202 in Samsung-supplied parts.

Through the summer of 2019, Counterpoint expects 130 million iPhone X sold, with 50 million Galaxy S8.

The study assumes that the largest share of a flagship's sales comes in the first two years of availability. It also appears that the study manufacturers gave the Galaxy S8 a head start, and longer period of sales — the iPhone X won't ship until November, and the Galaxy S8 has been available since April.

Also not included in the report is income that Samsung or Apple will earn as a result of the sales of the devices — it only encompasses earnings from manufacturing. Also not included are other devices from 2017 like the Galaxy Note 8, or the iPhone 8.

Apple is seeking to cut back on its dependence on any one manufacturer. Apple's partnership with Bain Capital and others to buy Toshiba's memory division appears to be one such move, as is the encouragement of other companies like LG to delve into OLED manufacturing.

The Galaxy S8 retails for $749, but often has a notably lower street price. Apple's iPhone X starts at $979. Not included in the study is the Galaxy Note 8, which retails for $949.

35 Comments

vukasika 103 comments · 10 Years

About 7 years ago

That’s actually kinda funny 😄

cali 3494 comments · 10 Years

How Samsung manages to sell 50 million knockoff devices is amazing. *applause*

Since it can’t outsell real iPhones, android morons will group all 1,000+ companies into one Vs. Apple.

sog35 said:

No wonder I have not seen any Samsung ad bashing Apple lately.......

Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

Same with Google. Dropping Bing for Google for Siri search.

Timmy is finally playing chess instead of checkers.

Samsung is making way too much off Apple. I hope Apple can develop and manufacture it’s own Samsung supplies components.

samsung made the batteries eh? No wonder.....

slurpy 5388 comments · 15 Years

sog35 said:

No wonder I have not seen any Samsung ad bashing Apple lately.......

Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

Same with Google. Dropping Bing for Google for Siri search.

Timmy is finally playing chess instead of checkers.

How the fuck is "Timmy" (love how you love to use that nickname in a condescending fashion, as if he's beneath you in some way) "finally" playing chess instead of checkers, when Apple has been using Samsung components in its phones since the very first iPhone, and Samsung has always made billions doing so? What exactly has changed in Apple's strategy so that it is akin to "checkers vs chess"? What are you even talking about? How come your posts never make a lick of sense? Why do you contradict yourself every 10 seconds?

cloudmobile 74 comments · 7 Years

sog35 said:

No wonder I have not seen any Samsung ad bashing Apple lately.......

Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

Same with Google. Dropping Bing for Google for Siri search.

Timmy is finally playing chess instead of checkers.

So trying to compete with another company by creating advertisements that contrast the advantages of your own products to the disadvantages of theirs only counts as "bashing" when other companies do it to Apple, and not when Apple does it to IBM, Microsoft, Samsung, Google and everybody else?

We should equally note that Apple and Tim Cook haven't really gone after Google or Samsung the way that they did during the "nuclear war" era either. No Android-related lawsuits in years and no FUD-based attempts to scare Android users into the Apple camp by hyping up security issues that never resulted in negative end user impact, or playing up privacy fears (when the same privacy issues exist for anyone who uses the third party apps on Apple hardware).

All parties are now competing with each other where appropriate and making money off each other where appropriate. Which is the way that it always should have been, as it avoid monopolies, is good for innovation and good for the end user.