“Apple Inc became the top mobile phone seller for the first time in the lucrative U.S. market during the fourth quarter of 2012, outshining arch rival Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, a report by Strategy Analytics showed,” Poornima Gupta reports for Reuters.
“Apple’s share of the U.S. mobile phone market, including feature phones and smartphones, jumped to 34 percent from 26 percent, while Samsung’s share grew to 32.3 percent from 31.8 percent, the research firm said,” Gupta reports. “Samsung had been the top mobile phone vendor in the US since 2008, the firm said.”
Gupta reports, “Apple sold 17.7 million iPhones in the U.S. in the fourth quarter, up 38 percent from the previous year… Samsung shipped 16.8 million phones during the same period.”
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Notice how they did not mention how many smartphones Samsung sold.
These hacks just refuse to print something that would make aplle look dominant.
yep, ,its says apple sold …. and samdung shipped…. wonder how few they actually sold.
“In the international arena, Samsung Electronics, with a range of handsets, has overtaken Apple as the world’s top smartphone seller.”
Worldwide Samsung beats Apple. Get crackin’, Tim!
“Apple’s share of the U.S. mobile phone market, including feature phones and smartphones, jumped to 34 percent from 26 percent, while Samsung’s share grew to 32.3 percent from 31.8 percent, the research firm said.”
Notice how they included feature phones, even though Apple doesn’t make any of those?
Because they don’t have any idea how many were sold. Bunch of fools.
Hey, wait a minute…again with the “Apple sold” versus “Samsung shipped”? Comparing apples with orangs? I give up; these people are hopeless.
People? I would call them Orang Otangs but that would be an insult to Orang Otangs! 🙂
+1
It would also be a derivative insult to Orange County, CA, which is hopelessly in a league by itself.
Orang is a killer character in the world’s first detective story, written by a man buried in Baltimore who will be spinning in his grave if the Niners win on Sunday.
Start spinning !
Please don’t call them orangutans. Thank you.
No offense intended
Orang Otags are cool and they use iPads so stop insulting them by calling them analysts. >:(
You people are hopeless as well.
Where in the world do you think all these shipped but unsold Samsung smartphones are going? Samsung has become extremely profitable lately. They are not sitting on unsold inventory. So your question “sold or shipped?” is irrellevant.
And that is the case most of the time. Companies may overship on occasion, maybe to fool their investors, probably because they overestimated demand for a new product — but within a few quarters that will always balance out (shipments will be lower than sales), or the company will go bankrupt.
I also like Apple’s position – for every iPhone sold Apple keeps getting revenue by selling apps, music and movies. Samsung doesn’t get a dime after the initial sale.
It is always the same old story….nobody reports any number but Apple and it is fine…..Apple reports numbers which are incredible but it does not matter because “somebody think” that Samsung “shipped” more….
I start to wonder if Samsung is not paying somebody just to put them in a good light even if things do not look as good as they are….
Anyway I will not buy any Samsung crap for sure…..bought a display for my Mac mini last year but I get sore eyes every time I look at that damn monitor just seeing the name….:)
So let’s look at those numbers. Apple sold 17.7 million iPhones. Samsung shipped 16.8 million phones. How many of Samsung’s phones were smartphones? How many run the same version of the OS and can run the same Apps? Finally, how many of those phones were part of buy one get one free deals? Apple SOLD 17.7 iPhones all running the same OS and all can run the same apps sold from the same app store.
Bam!
There are free iPhones as well.
How many of those Samsung phones were shipped to the channel or just to warehouses. After a while they ship them back to Samsung.
ANALyst reports Samsung sold a bunch of phones.
Wall Street jumps for joy!
Stocks surge skyward!
Major news media run death of Apple reports because Samsung sold a “bunch” of phones.
A lynching is called out for Cook.
Android Fans are orgasming profusely.
Mac/iOS users react…”unmm whatever”
I wish there were a total boycott on figures from outfits such as Strategy Analytics that appear to have an eerily close relation to Samsung. Why should they be given such credit in the press and treated as fact, rathe than bad fiction?