“Samsung Electronics said quarterly profit slid 23 percent as weaker demand for flat panels and computer chips offset booming smartphone shipments that were estimated to have surpassed those of industry pioneer Apple,” Foster Klug reports for The Associated Press.
MacDailyNews Take: Estimated. And, while the discerning world waited for Apple’s next-gen iPhone, rumored since June.
“Samsung, the world’s biggest manufacturer of memory chips and liquid crystal displays, said Friday it earned 3.44 trillion won ($3.1 billion) in the three months ended Sept. 30, down from 4.46 trillion won ($4 billion) a year earlier,” Klug reports. “Samsung spokesman Nam Ki-yung wouldn’t comment on whether Samsung had passed Apple Inc. in smartphone sales, saying the company no longer provides its sales figures for handsets.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Why does Samdung no longer provide sales figures for handsets? Feeling guilty about something?
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IDC: Q311 worldwide mobile phone market sees slower growth as smartphone purchases soften ahead of iPhone 4S – October 28, 2011
MDN Take: not “guilty”, but embarrassed
There’s that word ‘shipments’ again and again and….
It’s use is like signing up to desperate unreality.
Shipments -vs- Sales
Of course they won’t give real numbers anymore. It is too embarrassing and EASY for the media to pick up on what is actually being bought by the end user compared to what is sitting in a warehouse. Apple ‘sells out” of phones… Competitors “ship out” phones.
The only thing keeping the Androids in business is the fact they are on more carriers.. and when the iPhone sells out, the ones late to the store have no choice but to buy the sloppy seconds left on the shelves that the sales guy is told to get rid of.
Another outfit that will rue the day it went up against Apple. Redmond’s photocopiers may be broken, now it is time to shut down the ones in Seoul.
Wait… what? So Sammy is taking over the Smartphone space and they’re doing WORSE financially? Sheesh.. is Microsoft the only one making money off Android???
Apparently, it cost Samsung one-billion dollars to stuff the channel with 28-million phones.
Like I said: Samsung is soooo screwed. The party is only beginning. Pour on some more bogus bravado Samsung! Then we can laugh harder. (o_0)
It has finally begun, the era of Asian knock offs will slowly come to an end. Copying intelligently developed software is impossible, because it cannot be copied! Copying hardware is no longer enough for those uncreative and unimaginitive minds.