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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. Welcome to today's oblig. apple/android throwdown by jeffmeden · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

  2. Re:Sue by ClaraBow · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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!

  3. Re:High-end models? by MadKeithV · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

  4. This is based on analysts guesses by Linegod · · Score: 4, Informative

    This is based on analysts guesses. Samsung didn't release any numbers.

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  5. Re:High-end models? by phayes · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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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  6. Shipped vs Sold... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

  7. 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.