“Samsung’s financial results continued to take a hit in the first quarter as the company battled tough competition in the smartphone market,” Shara Tibken reports for CNET. “Sales dropped 12 percent from the previous year while Samsung’s operating profit fell 30 percent. A 30 percent decline in operating profit isn’t minor, but it’s a smaller drop than what Samsung has posted in previous quarters — 36 percent in the fourth quarter and 60 percent in the third quarter. Samsung’s IT and mobile business recorded a 57 percent year-over-year drop in operating profits, compared with a 64 percent decline in the fourth quarter and a 74 percent tumble in the third.”
“Samsung has been struggling over the past couple years as consumers opt for devices from its rivals, such as Apple,” Tibken reports. “Samsung’s financial results, while improving, are worlds apart from rival Apple. The iPhone and iPad maker on Monday posted record revenue and iPhone and Mac sales for its fiscal second quarter. The company has been benefiting from soaring demand for its newest iPhones, particularly in emerging markets such as China, and it sold 61.2 million smartphones during the period that ended March 28. Overall, Apple’s profit jumped 33 percent to $13.6 billion, and its revenue climbed 27 percent to $58 billion.”
“Samsung, by comparison, has seen its sales wane, and the March period represented the sixth time in a row that the company’s quarterly operating profit has fallen from the previous year. Samsung has been struggling to compete against Apple in the high-end phone market and against newcomers such as Xiaomi at the low end,” Tibken reports. “Apple in particular has become a bigger threat with its larger-screen devices, the 4.7-inch iPhone 6 and the 5.5-inch iPhone 6 Plus. Simply wanting a bigger display is no longer a reason to buy Samsung’s devices, and its smartphones can’t reach the low prices of those from Chinese and Indian vendors.
“The iPhone 6’s popularity helped Apple pass Samsung to become the world’s biggest smartphone maker in the fourth quarter, according to tech research firm Gartner,” Tibken reports. “The firm believes Apple took home a 20.4 percent share of worldwide smartphone sales, up from 17.8 percent during the same quarter in 2013. Over the same period, Samsung’s share of the smartphone market, on sales of 73 million units, plummeted to 19.9 percent from 29.5 percent, Gartner said.”
MacDailyNews Take: Hello, Karma, so nice to see you again! Don’t hold back now, ya hear?!
It’s best not to mess with karma. – Steve Jobs
An iPhone with a larger screen option will hurt Samsung immeasurably more than myriad, unending traipses through the legal morass. – MacDailyNews Take, May 2, 2014
I thought this site was about Apple, not Apple’s competitors. Who cares about Samsung. I only care about Apple. Where would Apple’s iPhone be today if there were no Samsung components in them.
Apple would be EXACTLY the same without Samsung but the chips inside the product would have a different manufacturers logo on them. Such is the problem with their business model. Beaten on the high margin side by innovation. Beaten on the low margin side by the forces of commoditization. To make matters worth they’ve lost all that time (and if history is any indication, their most creative personnel) in pursuit of a pretty predictable outcome. Samsung and Xiaomi. Thieves stealing from thieves.
It is difficult to believe your petulant negativity is sincere. If it is, it is silly. It would be very difficult to discuss any appreciable amount of Apple information without reference to competitors.
E.g.
“The new iPhone’s screen specs are —-.” What does that mean? Why should I care? Compared to what?
“Apple’s sales rose 5%.” So what? Did everybody else’s rise 20%? Or drop 50%?
I just found this at Yahoo Finance: SEOUL, April 29 (Reuters) – Samsung Electronics Co Ltd overtook Apple Inc to recapture the title of world’s top smartphone maker by volume in the first quarter of 2015, research firm Strategy Analytics said on Wednesday.
It said Samsung shipped 83.2 million smartphones worldwide and captured 24 percent market share in the quarter, down from 31 percent a year earlier but better than Apple’s 18 percent.
“Samsung continued to face challenges in Asia and elsewhere, but its global performance has stabilised sufficiently well this quarter to overtake Apple and recapture first position as the world’s largest smartphone vendor by volume,” Strategy Analytics Executive Director Neil Mawston said in a statement.
(Writing by Stephen Coates; Editing by Miral Fahmy)
More than seven months after being flagged as vulnerable, more than a dozen Android apps collectively downloaded at least 350 million times still contain fatal HTTPS flaws that cause them to leak passwords, phone numbers, and other highly sensitive user data, student researchers at City College of San Francisco found.
The vulnerable apps include OKCupid Dating, Dish Anywhere, ASTRO File Manager with Cloud, CityShop – for Craigslist, and PicsArt Photo Studio, which collectively have commanded from 170 million to 670 million downloads, according to official Google Play figures. Most of the titles have been updated regularly, but they continue to contain a game-over vulnerability that fails to detect fraudulent transport layer security (TLS) certificates…
so as markar12 calls them “ScamScum” has a big (39%) drop in profit and the stock is up. apple has a record 13 plus bill. profit and the stock is down. can someone school me on this please. now i know scamscum SHIP more phone (not sell) and they say ScamScum overtook Apple. but really. 13 bill profit to 39% drop.
A double standard, Apple reports iPhones sold, the rest of the industry reports phones shipped. Reporters & analysts spin the figures to equate shipped with sold. Problem is shipped often does not equate with sold. Many shipped phones remain unsold and are written off. Phones are discounted or BOGOed to get rid of unsold inventory. What doesn’t get sold or BOGOed goes to landfill and is written off. Apple sells everything they ship at retail, or through carriers. Reporting shipped is just a way of spinning the truth to make it appear more successful than it really is. Shipped is meaningless without knowing how many were actually sold, and at what price or profit margin. Hope this helps. 🖖😀⌚️
PS: I Have no idea why the stock market behaves the way it does. You’ll have to ask someone more familiar with stock trading, speculating, and manipulation. Sure is screwed up though. 🖖😀⌚️
If only the Oracle at Delphi was still in operation…
It is easy to forget that Samsung makes much more than phones. It may be facing heavy water, but that is surely not all. South Korea is facing much the same forces as Samsung, but it is easy to concentrate on the phones.
It’s beginning to feel similar to when MSFT began to drop out of the conversation vs Apple, isn’t it?
It seems so long ago, but remember when Windows vs OS X was a thing? And then after a time it was no longer a real fight anymore. They’ll continue to make buckets of money from a declining market, though.
MSFT fought (and continues to fight) lesser wars — tablets, phones — but they don’t have much presence in the public discussion.
And now it seems Samsung and by extension Google are beginning to fade in similar fashion.
The current fight is transitioning to the watch, of course. I don’t know that there is a competitor with the stature that MSFT or Samsung had in those other fights. Probably it’s more like the lesser industries that atrophied as cell phones took over — the pocket cameras, mapping devices, and so on.
Also on CNET and others, this deceptive positive take:
Samsung Electronics has recaptured its title as the world’s top smartphone maker, according to new research released Tuesday.
The South Korean electronics giant shipped 83.2 million smartphones worldwide during the first quarter of 2015, capturing 24 percent of the smartphone market, according to market researcher Strategy Analytics. While that’s a decrease from its 31 percent marketshare a year ago, it still bests the 17.7 percent marketshare Apple recorded with 61.2 million units shipped during the quarter. The iPhone maker’s market share expanded on the 15.3 percent it commanded a year ago but shrank from the 19.6 percent it captured in the fourth quarter of 2014, according to Strategy Analytics.
ScamScum CEO: We have to increase our shipments of phone, but no one is buying them, what can we do?
ScamScum Marketing VP: I say we fill phone boxes with rocks. No manufacturing cost with rocks. Ship boxes to warehouses, sine no one buys our phones, no one will notice. All the stupid pundits equate units shipped with units sold. We increase our shipments until we recapture Marketshare.
I love it! They’re getting whupped by the top-of-the line Apples and the bottom of-the-line Chinese Samsung knockoffs. Karma indeed! 😈👎😅😛
The old Three Stooges move: Smack ’em in the head and kick ’em in the butt. Whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop!
The POS deserves that POS report. 😛
Baloney. They probably have more losses than reported. By now they should be getting a hit from unsold phones that are stocked and not moving.
They have no right downs? Impossible. Maybe they will quietly readjust these reports. Maybe when they have hit a bottom and comparisons will be zero.
I meant write downs.
Samsung didn’t lose quite as much money this quarter as they did last quarter…so we should expect Samsung stock to rise 10-15% tomorrow.
“We noticed we didn’t lose as much when we didn’t show up.”
I thought this site was about Apple, not Apple’s competitors. Who cares about Samsung. I only care about Apple. Where would Apple’s iPhone be today if there were no Samsung components in them.
probably another manufacturer?
Apple would be EXACTLY the same without Samsung but the chips inside the product would have a different manufacturers logo on them. Such is the problem with their business model. Beaten on the high margin side by innovation. Beaten on the low margin side by the forces of commoditization. To make matters worth they’ve lost all that time (and if history is any indication, their most creative personnel) in pursuit of a pretty predictable outcome. Samsung and Xiaomi. Thieves stealing from thieves.
Then don’t click on the story.
It is difficult to believe your petulant negativity is sincere. If it is, it is silly. It would be very difficult to discuss any appreciable amount of Apple information without reference to competitors.
E.g.
“The new iPhone’s screen specs are —-.” What does that mean? Why should I care? Compared to what?
“Apple’s sales rose 5%.” So what? Did everybody else’s rise 20%? Or drop 50%?
Context is critical.
Karma is a bitch…if you are… 🖖😀⌚️
Where are all the analysts who predicted Apple’s demise due to samdung shipping phones.
ShameScam needs to be more honest in its shipped categories:
Shipped to merchants, unsold in stockroom,
Shipped to warehouses, unsold.
Shipped to landfills.
Donated to nonprofits.
🖖😀⌚️
I just found this at Yahoo Finance: SEOUL, April 29 (Reuters) – Samsung Electronics Co Ltd overtook Apple Inc to recapture the title of world’s top smartphone maker by volume in the first quarter of 2015, research firm Strategy Analytics said on Wednesday.
It said Samsung shipped 83.2 million smartphones worldwide and captured 24 percent market share in the quarter, down from 31 percent a year earlier but better than Apple’s 18 percent.
“Samsung continued to face challenges in Asia and elsewhere, but its global performance has stabilised sufficiently well this quarter to overtake Apple and recapture first position as the world’s largest smartphone vendor by volume,” Strategy Analytics Executive Director Neil Mawston said in a statement.
(Writing by Stephen Coates; Editing by Miral Fahmy)
I think that’s what you call “spin”!
Samsung (‘Droid) beats Apple in another category: 🖖😀⌚️
‘Droid Corners Malware Marketshare
http://mac360.com/2015/04/whats-missing-in-iphone-and-ipad-apps/
If we want to talk Android malware, it gets even *cough* better:
Android apps still suffer game-over HTTPS defects 7 months later
Apps with >350 million downloads fail to detect simple man-in-the-middle attack.
More than seven months after being flagged as vulnerable, more than a dozen Android apps collectively downloaded at least 350 million times still contain fatal HTTPS flaws that cause them to leak passwords, phone numbers, and other highly sensitive user data, student researchers at City College of San Francisco found.
The vulnerable apps include OKCupid Dating, Dish Anywhere, ASTRO File Manager with Cloud, CityShop – for Craigslist, and PicsArt Photo Studio, which collectively have commanded from 170 million to 670 million downloads, according to official Google Play figures. Most of the titles have been updated regularly, but they continue to contain a game-over vulnerability that fails to detect fraudulent transport layer security (TLS) certificates…
But how many of the ScamScum phones actually sold!?!?!? 🖖😀⌚️
Same at ZDNet: http://www.zdnet.com/article/samsung-wrestles-smartphone-lead-back-from-apple/#ftag=YHFb1d24ec
You can only polish a turd for so long samsung! You can have the “market share” and we will enjoy the profits…have fun in your race to the bottom!
CORRECT HEADLINE:
“Shamdung captures their shipped over sold share by a staggering margin!”
so as markar12 calls them “ScamScum” has a big (39%) drop in profit and the stock is up. apple has a record 13 plus bill. profit and the stock is down. can someone school me on this please. now i know scamscum SHIP more phone (not sell) and they say ScamScum overtook Apple. but really. 13 bill profit to 39% drop.
A double standard, Apple reports iPhones sold, the rest of the industry reports phones shipped. Reporters & analysts spin the figures to equate shipped with sold. Problem is shipped often does not equate with sold. Many shipped phones remain unsold and are written off. Phones are discounted or BOGOed to get rid of unsold inventory. What doesn’t get sold or BOGOed goes to landfill and is written off. Apple sells everything they ship at retail, or through carriers. Reporting shipped is just a way of spinning the truth to make it appear more successful than it really is. Shipped is meaningless without knowing how many were actually sold, and at what price or profit margin. Hope this helps. 🖖😀⌚️
PS: I Have no idea why the stock market behaves the way it does. You’ll have to ask someone more familiar with stock trading, speculating, and manipulation. Sure is screwed up though. 🖖😀⌚️
If only the Oracle at Delphi was still in operation…
It is easy to forget that Samsung makes much more than phones. It may be facing heavy water, but that is surely not all. South Korea is facing much the same forces as Samsung, but it is easy to concentrate on the phones.
*whimper*
soooo screwed
💀😭💀
Damn dung from Samsung™
It’ll be a phrase yet…
It’s beginning to feel similar to when MSFT began to drop out of the conversation vs Apple, isn’t it?
It seems so long ago, but remember when Windows vs OS X was a thing? And then after a time it was no longer a real fight anymore. They’ll continue to make buckets of money from a declining market, though.
MSFT fought (and continues to fight) lesser wars — tablets, phones — but they don’t have much presence in the public discussion.
And now it seems Samsung and by extension Google are beginning to fade in similar fashion.
The current fight is transitioning to the watch, of course. I don’t know that there is a competitor with the stature that MSFT or Samsung had in those other fights. Probably it’s more like the lesser industries that atrophied as cell phones took over — the pocket cameras, mapping devices, and so on.
Also on CNET and others, this deceptive positive take:
Samsung Electronics has recaptured its title as the world’s top smartphone maker, according to new research released Tuesday.
The South Korean electronics giant shipped 83.2 million smartphones worldwide during the first quarter of 2015, capturing 24 percent of the smartphone market, according to market researcher Strategy Analytics. While that’s a decrease from its 31 percent marketshare a year ago, it still bests the 17.7 percent marketshare Apple recorded with 61.2 million units shipped during the quarter. The iPhone maker’s market share expanded on the 15.3 percent it commanded a year ago but shrank from the 19.6 percent it captured in the fourth quarter of 2014, according to Strategy Analytics.
ScamScum CEO: We have to increase our shipments of phone, but no one is buying them, what can we do?
ScamScum Marketing VP: I say we fill phone boxes with rocks. No manufacturing cost with rocks. Ship boxes to warehouses, sine no one buys our phones, no one will notice. All the stupid pundits equate units shipped with units sold. We increase our shipments until we recapture Marketshare.
ScamScum CEO. Brilliant! Do it!
🖖😀⌚️