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Samsung Takes the Lead In the Smartphone Market
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.'"
With articles like this, you would think it really mattered who made more of what in a quarter... Never mind that geographies are different, carriers are different, and features are different. Time to buckle down for the hordes of apple and android gang-bangers to fill another thread with vitriol and made up words.
Seriously, what has happened to all the great discussions which defined Slashdot as a community of thought provoking and insightful people who were tech-savvy and in the know! This 7th grade banter is getting annoying!
How many of those smartphones are high-end models that are comparable to the iPhone?
None.
Or according to Apple's lawyers: every single one.
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.
With articles like this, you would think it really mattered who made more of what in a quarter... Never mind that geographies are different, carriers are different, and features are different. Time to buckle down for the hordes of apple and android gang-bangers to fill another thread with vitriol and made up words.
Well, according to Apple and Samsung, these guys are stealing so many of each other's ideas they are practically selling the same phones, if you believe the testimony.
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This is based on analysts guesses. Samsung didn't release any numbers.
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The most interesting questions is rather: "How many of the shipped pones will actually get sold before 2012?" Samsung has shown it can produce phones now let's see if they can actually sell them.
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Quite a few - Samsung's hottest seller in late spring/early summer was the international variant of the Galaxy S II - a device which was undoubtebly above the iPhone 4 in all regards.
In fact, in some areas, it's still ahead of the iPhone 4S - the 4S has a nicer GPU but a weaker CPU, and still has a crappy 3.5" screen.
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Android "ships" phones, Apple "sells" phones -- this misleading comparison of apples and oranges continues. When will Android manufacturers start quoting "actual sales"?
Lets see how Apple recovers in "sales" figures now that their newly released phone is out, the last quarter was expected to dip due to anticipation of many wanting to purchase the new model.
Samsung released their Galaxy II s in the previous quarter. apple did not release the overdue and widely expected 4S till this quarter. Combine that with the fact that the smart phone market is expanding (not zero sum) so that apple does not have to sell less for Samsung to sell more, and it's pretty clear this statistic is just an anomoly due to the way sales get binned by quarter. We won't know much about it till a few more quarters have passed to average it out. My guess is the 4s is the hot cake for Q4.
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"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.
There is no question. Some Samsung models will come out to the market at a more affordable price than an iPhone. And while people in Slashdot screams that iPhones are cheap (which are not), there's still people in many places that cannot afford or will not pay for them.
So Samsung won't make as much money? who cares if they're putting many devices on the market at similar rates than the iPhone.
I don't know if Apple or Jobs ever cared about having the most sales. To the loyal fans, they cared about having the best product. To the cynics, they cared about having the most profit.
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I was there. It did exist. Now, it's Slashdot is primarily based around Apple hate and imbeciles.
There are other places on the internet. No harm, no foul.
OLEDs have terrible color, its over-saturated and makes people think the image looks better in a subjective way. ((S)AM)OLED is to cellphones as glossy screens are to laptops. Do a Pepsi challenge with a iPhone or even an original Droid, versus a Galaxy Nexus in a dark room, versus watching the image on a proper screen.
Pentile doesn't help either with the blacks or contrasty images.
Don't blame me, I voted for Baltar.
Apple makes more profit in the smartphone market than any other manufacturer. I think the estimates are somewhere between 50% to 66%. By model, Apple has the highest sales. Apple however doesn't sell many models. Apple could release a cheap model to get more sales but I don't think they ever will. Given their history of sticking to the high end and most profitable segments of markets, this is unlikely. Your reaction instead of a discussion about things is to scream "fanboi!"
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If you care to see through your Apple hatred you would realize that I'm trying to have a frank discussion about strategy. The smart phone market like the computer industry is highly competitive. Apple could never compete with Nokia or Samsung by selling the most units but at a lower margin. Just like they could never compete with Dell. Under Jobs it seems that they take a minimalist focus in this regard. Their strategy has always been to focus on a smaller number of models but at the high end of the market for more profit. Thus I don't think they are bothered if they don't have the highest sales. I think they are proud that their strategy has placed them #1 in certain categories. However, all this seems lost on you as all you have are rantings and are adding nothing to the discussion. Would you care to quibble how better vi is compared to emacs?
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How's the iOS 5 on the iPhone 1 and 3G again?
A lot better than Android 2 was on the G1.
I like how your response to anything Apple is "It's all marketing!" as if they don't have to put out quality products to begin with. It makes it much easier to spot you as an anti-fanboy, and dismiss pretty much anything you have to say.