“In the ongoing status check of smartphones, Samsung Electronics is seeing lower-than-expected demand of its flagship Galaxy S6 phone in China, while Apple is seeing continued steady sales of its iPhone 6, according to analysts John Vinh and Michael McConnell of Pacific Crest Securities. Today they offered a survey of U.S. handset sales gathered from store inquiries, as well as feedback from companies in the supply chain,” Jack Purcher reports for Patently Apple. “The Galaxy S6 is selling slower than the prior flagship, last year’s Galaxy S5.”

Purcher reports that the analysts wrote in a note to clients, “Based on carrier conversations, sell-through results for GS6/Edge in the U.S. market appeared in line with carrier expectations with channel inventories remaining relatively lean. Despite lean inventories, we are concerned to see that AT&T had been offering a free Galaxy Tab 4 with the purchase of GS6/Edge during May. Despite the tablet promotion, we saw no upside to our sell-through estimates and see modest risk to component estimates, as we note relatively lean inventories.”

Read more in the full article here.

MacDailyNews Take: Can’t flop hard enough – although seeing one of these iPhone knockoffs in the hands of, say, a real estate agent or a car dealer or a contractor is rather helpful as it immediately tells us to look for smarter ones. It’s like instant an IQ test.

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dan K.” for the heads up.]

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