Sony is one of the main partners of the company Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), regarding the development of iDevices, and thanks to an American publication we find out for the first time how much money he earns from the sale of each iPhone. According to the Wall Street Journal, Sony earns no less than 20 dollars every time an iPhone is sold, which is the amount that Apple pays for the use of Japanese cameras.
According to the Americans, Sony would be the market leader in the segment of image sensor sales for smartphones and the other day we told you that it had to give up contracts with some Chinese smartphone manufacturers because it could not satisfy their orders . Sony finished the year 2014 holding 40% of the market of image sensor manufacturers for smartphones, OmniVision being placed in the second position with 15.7%.
Sony Corp. lost the smartphone war but rings up a sale on every shipment of Apple Inc.'s new iPhone 6 or Samsung Electronics Co.'s Galaxy S6. The Japanese company is the world's largest supplier of image sensors in digital cameras. To meet surging demand, Sony plans to invest $375 million in its image-sensor factories on top of nearly $900...
Samsung occupied only the third position in this top with a market share of 15.2%, and not even the combined shares of the companies on the 2nd and XNUMXrd places can equal that of Sony. Considering that Sony's image sensors are used in most iDevices and a good part of the top smartphones on the market, the position of the Japanese should not surprise anyone, their products being extremely good.
The 20 dollars earned by Sony from the sale of each iPhone 6 terminal represents a modest amount if we look at the total price of the terminals, but by collecting sales of hundreds of millions of units, the Japanese earn serious amounts of money. Sony is one of Apple's oldest partners and considering the handsome sums it earns based on this partnership, it is unlikely that things will change in the future.
