Wouldnt the world be a great place if everyone thought like you, had an iphone and poured feces from the mouth everytime they opened it……just a dream but awsome none the less.

A Troll is a Troll no mater how you dress it up Pat.

Do you get the fact that Apple didn’t steal anything from Sony, it was Apples design team that role played as if they where Sony.

Joel, get your information correct before you post this B.S.

The likes of SJ, Gates, Zuck only ever care about one thing and that is the mighty dollar so they will push for as long as they can. Example, Apple has sold a whole lot of iPone 4s which at this point covers most people’s needs and beyond so the 5 will no doubt be purchased by The Cult of Apple and by folks who can afford to change phones as often as they change their socks but those numbers might not keep Wall Street happy. No one company is immune to this life cycle phenomena no one and I know a little something about riding a wave via Sony for 20+ years and today I no longer care to pay a premium for the Sony brand name.

Apple does it share of copying as does MSFT and others but in the end there is never a carbon copy. IPhone is an iPhone and it cannot be mistaken for any Android device and the same applies to Tablets etc…

Business 101, break the rules and make a lot of money and worry about the irrelevant fines later. Every solid business does it and yes as SJ often times stated, copying is part and parcel of evolution.

For the Q1, “analysts” estimated that Samsung shipped from 32 to 49 million smartphones.

Go figure the “accuracy”.

So while it seems that in Q2 Samsung certainly surpassed Apple in terms of smartphone sales, actual difference in sales is unknown.

I don’t doubt these numbers. Look at how many phone models Samsung has. I’m not going to bother to count but I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s 3 digit figures. Remember that Samsung also has Windows phones as well as their own Bada OS phones counted amongst their smartphone totals.

Plus, a lot of these phones are barely “smart” if you get my drift. They’re freebies given away in BOGO (or BOGM for Buy One Get Many) deals in third world countries or for the economically challenged in developed nations.

These unit numbers are meaningless. This is not at all like the PC wars of the 80′s and 90′s when the installed base for software meant everything. In fact, iOS actually has a big lead in this area in terms of apps available (both quantity and quality) and the amount of money the developers make.

Let ShamDung produce gazillions of cheap and/or freebie phones for people who just need to make phone calls.

However, I think it is foolish to deny that they are not continuing to gain market share, and are not giving all their handsets away as used to be the norm in this segment.

I’m certainly not seeing any type of promos like this in my part of the world, I’m seeing the new S3 for $159 on a 3 year deal. That’s about the same as an iPhone 4S.

I am still bitter with Samsung, and am very hopeful they will have to withdraw a number of these infringing products at least from the North American market. It’s looking more and more like it might happen.

There will never be a day that Apple does not own the ‘best’ part of this market as long as they keep delighting customers. People will happily pay more for a better experience.

Samsung, as much as they are ‘aping’ will never be able to duplicate the experience Apple offers. Ever.

Let’s see what happens.

I wonder how many *more* millions of iPhone’s Apple would have sold last quarter if people didn’t think the next gen iPhone was right around the corner..

Samsung’s revenue/profit is from components for any number of brands (including Apple’s 26 million iPhones), their own (50 million) phones, televisions, air conditioners, refrigerators, and the other 1000 businesses they’re in.

If Apple sold 200 million iPhones a year the profits would have been very visible. Samsung? Not so much.

I notice that you have no facts to back up your claims. I do:

• Samsung Profit misses estimates on smartphone output, chip prices – July 26, 2012

• Apple’s share of global mobile phone profits: 73% – May 3, 2012

Apologists for lying, cheating, thieving scumbags headed up by convicted criminals are almost as bad as the lying, cheating, thieving scumbags themselves.