Comments on: Apple beats derivative Samsung for mobile phone sales lead in fourth quarter

By: Zeke

Zeke — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 23:06:09 +0000

“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?

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 18:30:53 +0000

There are free iPhones as well.

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 18:28:07 +0000

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.

By: MacFreek

MacFreek — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 20:11:47 +0000

“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!

By: Vertti

Vertti — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 07:33:14 +0000

Orang Otags are cool and they use iPads so stop insulting them by calling them analysts. >:(

By: hannahjs

hannahjs — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 06:30:57 +0000

No offense intended

By: correctu

correctu — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 06:19:20 +0000

Please don’t call them orangutans. Thank you.

By: Jax44

Jax44 — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 04:38:59 +0000

Start spinning !

By: taosbob

taosbob — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 04:19:00 +0000

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?

By: Jubei

Jubei — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 03:53:24 +0000

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”

By: John

John — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 00:55:21 +0000

How many of those Samsung phones were shipped to the channel or just to warehouses. After a while they ship them back to Samsung.

By: hannahjs

hannahjs — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 00:00:42 +0000

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.

By: Jeff II

Jeff II — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 23:43:15 +0000

It would also be a derivative insult to Orange County, CA, which is hopelessly in a league by itself.

By: Crabapple

Crabapple — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 23:25:21 +0000

People? I would call them Orang Otangs but that would be an insult to Orang Otangs!

By: lawrence

lawrence — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 22:02:17 +0000

yep, ,its says apple sold …. and samdung shipped…. wonder how few they actually sold.

By: Charles Davis

Charles Davis — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 21:46:52 +0000

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!

By: pjorio

pjorio — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 20:49:58 +0000

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….:)

By: Whatever

Whatever — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 20:45:29 +0000

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.

By: hannahjs

hannahjs — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 20:44:16 +0000

Hey, wait a minute…again with the “Apple sold” versus “Samsung shipped”? Comparing apples with orangs? I give up; these people are hopeless.

By: blaargh

blaargh — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 20:43:48 +0000

Because they don’t have any idea how many were sold. Bunch of fools.

By: Federico

Federico — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 20:35:39 +0000

Notice how they did not mention how many smartphones Samsung sold.

These hacks just refuse to print something that would make aplle look dominant.