Comments on: comScore: Apple’s smartphone market share grows, Samsung’s shrinks; iOS outgrows Android in U.S.

By: qka

qka — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 14:30:34 +0000

@ nekogami13

You’re not the only confused one.

I gave up halfway thru the article, realizing their numerical prestidigitation was meaningless, and that the headline, while correct given the data presented, was also meaningless.

Figures lie, and liars figure.

http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/11/15/liars-figure/

By: Bongo

Bongo — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 13:00:53 +0000

Can’t wait to see the seismic shift after a few months of iPhone 5 sales

By: TheConfuzed1

TheConfuzed1 — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 06:41:18 +0000

Your market share is the percentage of your product sold, v.s. the competition’s.

Every iPhone sold is one the competition didn’t sell.

By: Laughing_Boy48

Laughing_Boy48 — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 03:44:50 +0000

It’s less important about whose winning in market share than whose making the most revenue and profits. Any analyst that has his head wrapped around believing market share shows which company is winning is dead wrong. So far, Apple has the best financial model of all companies and as long as the financial model stays solid, Apple wins.

Apple doesn’t need the low end smartphone buyer even in China. If Apple did, what would prevent the company from pursuing it just like any other company? Economies of scale will work at either end of the cost spectrum. The only problem is that Apple would likely have to reduce quality and I hope it doesn’t go there. Besides, no company needs to have 90% of the pie to be considered successful. All Apple needs is a steady YOY growth in iPhone sales even if it’s losing market share every year.

By: peterblood71

peterblood71 — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 03:28:10 +0000

I suspect many soon to be ex-Android users will not be able to resist the siren call of the Apple iPhone 5.

By: Pat

Pat — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 03:05:30 +0000

Does upgrading equate to increased market share? I see a lot of the latter coming but market share increases will be dependent on new users.

By: Tessellator

Tessellator — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 02:46:59 +0000

Samsung “stuffed the channel” at a time they knew Apple wouldn’t be selling as many iPhone 4′s (because a new model is weeks ( or days!) away)
Channel stuffing (filling resellers warehouses with product) technically counts as “sales” because samesung “sold” them to resellers, but the phones weren’t actually “sold” as in to customers.

Just a sleazy trick brought to you by a master of sleaze: Samsung

By: patranus

patranus — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 02:42:14 +0000

Never mind.

By: patranus

patranus — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 02:40:45 +0000

Total Mobile OEM.
So all phones not just smart phones.

By: TheConfuzed1

TheConfuzed1 — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 02:21:37 +0000

Apple’s market share is about to grow a whole lot more!

By: nekogami13

nekogami13 — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 01:27:50 +0000

I’m confused.
Earlier article stated the opposite of this.
Whose right?