Samsung Takes the Lead In the Smartphone Market

Posted by Soulskill on Friday October 28, 2011 @01:38AM 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.'"

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Re:Sue by greg1104 · 2011-10-28 01:50 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Yes, because fighting the market leader by lawsuit has been an effective strategy for Apple in the past. They never would have gained a majority share of desktop PCs without that lawsuit.
Oh, no, wait, that's not what happened at all. The courts said that was all obvious stuff, kicked them out, and the bad press hurt more than the lawsuit gained them. Hopefully history will repeat itself with the recent patent suits.