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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.'"

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  1. Units shipped by bonch · · Score: 1, Troll

    This report is talking about units shipped, when the Apple figure is units sold to customers.

    Why do research firms keep doing this?