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Samsung Takes the Lead In the Smartphone Market

Posted by Soulskill on from the taking-a-bite-out-of-apple dept.

New submitter landofcleve writes "When the writing is on the wall, you fight harder — or at least that's what we've seen from Apple in recent months. Now we know why: Samsung has reached a market share above Apple's for smartphone sales. 'Samsung shipped 27.8 million smartphones in the last quarter, taking 23.8 percent of the market ... Apple’s 17.1 million shipments, comprising 14.6 percent of the market, pushed the Cupertino, California-based company to second place. Nokia maintained its third position.'"

3 of 406 comments (clear)

  1. Units Shipped != Units Sold by AoF.Squall · · Score: 3, Interesting

    And neither one represents number of active users. I can imagine that Apple has a much better sell-through rate of stock, and Samsung supplies a lot of models to a lot of retailers & service providers.

  2. Re:High-end models? by Yobgod+Ababua · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "and still has a crappy 3.5" screen."

    I still don't get what's "crappy" about a screen size I can actually fit in my pocket.
    It's all you damn baggy-pants kids complaining, isn't it? Isn't it???

    Get off my goddamm lawn and leave my phone's form factor alone.

  3. Re:High-end models? by s73v3r · · Score: 4, Interesting

    How's the iOS 5 on the iPhone 1 and 3G again?

    A lot better than Android 2 was on the G1.