“Apple Inc. happily reported that it sold 74.5 million iPhones during the fourth quarter, but there’s one stat the company never talks about: how many iPhones were sold to former Android customers,” Louis Bedigian reports for Benzinga.
“Apple may not have that number, but market research firm Phoenix Marketing International has an estimate,” Bedigian reports. “‘Samsung was selling a lot of large-screen phones into the Apple user base,’ Leon Majors, senior vice president at Phoenix, told Benzinga. ‘Apple has reversed that and sold, in my estimation, $2 billion worth of large screen phones into Samsung’s user base.'”
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