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Samsung's Galaxy S III Steals Smartphone Crown From iPhone
zacharye writes "The best-selling smartphone in the world is no longer an iPhone. New data released on Thursday by market research firm Strategy Analytics finds that Samsung's Galaxy S III was the world's top-selling smartphone model in the third quarter this year, displacing Apple's iPhone for the first time in years. Samsung announced earlier this week that cumulative Galaxy S III channel sales reached the 30 million unit milestone and according to Strategy Analytics, 18 million of those were shipped in Q3 2012. During the same period, Apple shipped an estimated 16.2 million iPhone 4S handsets, slipping into the No.2 spot for the quarter..." Also at Slash Cloud.
Is the iPhone 4S outselling the iPhone 5 for some reason? Why is the current Samsung model being compared against Apple's last year model? I'm confused.
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Arbitrary comparisons is the way of the land. On that subject I can also add that the US navy has fewer ships now than it did in World War I.
A 'singular oddity' is an event that cannot be explained and only happens when you are alone.
Q3 would have been the slowest quarter. Even if you want a iphone 4s you'd be dumb to buy it that close to the iphone 5 launch and lose the lower price. But despite the fact many people would have been waiting for iphone 5, Apple still managed to get within 1.8 million units of Samsung's best offering with old and less powerful technology. Samsung still needs to learn you can't mask a turd just because putting more memory in it.