iPhonethe company Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), is one of the most popular smartphones in the world, but in the USA it is the most profitable product by a local company. 125 million iPhones were sold in 2012 by the company Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC),, the revenues generated by their sale representing more than half of the total revenues registered by the company. More precisely, from the receipts of 156.5 billion dollars, the iPhones they represented 80.5 billion dollars, an increase of 73% compared to 2011.
The iPhone is by far the most successful product Apple sells. Of the company's $156.5 billion in worldwide sales in 2012, $80.5 billion came from the iPhone alone. Apple sold more than 125 million units last year, a 73% increase from 2011. Each iPhone is far more profitable than each iPad, the company's second best-selling product. According to documents released as a result of the patent lawsuit between Apple and Samsung, Apple's gross margins on the iPhone were between 49% and 58% from April 2010 to April 2012, nearly double that of the iPad. This is partly because of larger revenue due to carriers that subsidize the iPhone heavily—an average of $425 per unit according to a recent Stifel Nicolaus analysis. Because of this fact, 24/7 calculates the iPhone's profit margin is 40%—even higher than the entire company's 35.3% margin.
The operating margin for iPhone terminals is 40%, 5% higher than that recorded for any other Apple product, but also 10% higher than that of the product ranked 2nd in the American top, Marlboro cigarettes. Practically in the top of the most profitable products in the USA, iPhones are followed by Marlboro cigarettes, drinks produced by Monster and soft drinks produced by the Coca Cola company.
