Comments on: Apple’s iOS, Google’s Android dominate smartphone market with record 92% of shipments

By: Cubert

Cubert — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 04:56:21 +0000

How do you reconcile these numbers with those that show more iPhones sold in the December quarter than Android phones?

By: MtnMan

MtnMan — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 03:58:56 +0000

The latest news sez Android pays a bigger commission to store clerks. Maybe full disclosure at time of sale is now necessary.

By: Weekend

Weekend — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 18:36:23 +0000

Yup.

By: AC in WA

AC in WA — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 18:25:27 +0000

Right on. When Amazon as well as many Chinese manufacturers strip all the Google out of Android, it’s not really “Googles” Android anymore.

By: Wow

Wow — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:33:40 +0000

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By: MacFreek

MacFreek — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 16:40:25 +0000

No one can deny it’s a two horse race now.

By: dipa shits

dipa shits — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 16:34:14 +0000

68% samsung 22%apple. Thats a figure i love seeing.

By: 3l3c7ro

3l3c7ro — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 16:10:59 +0000

If they included all the phones that Google claims along with Samsung, the headline would read “ANDROID DOMINATES WITH 112% OF THE SMARTPHONE SHARE.” All the rest don’t even add up to a rounding error.

By: DeRS

DeRS — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 16:02:46 +0000

The issue here is not even “shipped” thing, but the fact that Samsung replaces OS in their featurephones and calls these “smartphones” (yes, $100) right away.

So it will be easy for Samsung to convert almost any number of their 110 million phones to “smartphones”.

Thus it would be more honest to compare growth of phone sales, rather than “smartphone” sales: Apple had 40% unit growth, while Samsung had 12.5%.

By: alanaudio

alanaudio — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:55:05 +0000

Samsung doesn’t even give figures for units shipped. They give private guidance to selected analysts and each analyst comes up with different figures based on what they have been told and how they choose to interpret it.

There’s far too much smoke and mirrors involved with Samsung’s sales figures and I reckon that when the truth finally emerges, it will be rather different to what is being claimed these days.

By: Jozz

Jozz — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:32:11 +0000

Mind you, these are “units shipped”. With Samsung, that does not equal “units sold” at all…..
The question is how many of these are “units stuffed into the sales channel and stuck there”.

By: Shareholder

Shareholder — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:11:29 +0000

Very lousy article. If it’s from a market share perspective, just mention Android will be the honest way of using the word “dominate”. No need to say the combined figure with iOS. Although, market share in this context speaks of little value in terms of great HCI and user-experience the well-evolved human mind would prefer.

By: birdy

birdy — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:06:23 +0000

This headline is equal to … Hyundai and Ferrari take 92% of the car market. Pointless.