Samsung Passes Apple for No.1 Spot in Smartphone Sales

[ellmondo]

i think apple will start to slow down and eventually go backwards. people have had their way with their products and they are now becoming boring and old...

 

[Reynod]

The wife likes her Samsung Galaxy II ... it is a neat phone ... and so much more.

Call me oldskool but I still like my BB Curve.

 

[Uberragen21]

[citation][nom]watcha[/nom]These figures are like weeks old now, even Yahoo had this article weeks ago. In terms of the figures themselves, lots of arguments have been made about the fact that Samsung makes much much less profit per phone (so less profit overall), or that Apple sells everything it makes, or the obvious fact that if Apple resigned to making as little profit as Samsung does per phone, their prices would mean they would easily outsell Samsung. Of course, they choose instead to maximise profit by finding the sweet-spot between volume and price.But I don't think that's the key here. The iPhone 4 was released in June 24th, 2010. That's 17 months ago. The figures quoted here are the last quarterly figures which will come out which don't include the undeniably massive, massive surge of sales caused by bringing out the iPhone 4S. Clearly, you would expect a company like Apple with its regular-ish release cycle and with last quarter being full of iPhone 5 rumours, to post lower sales just before an annual product launch. Indeed, given the 4m iPhone 4S sales in the opening weekend, just 2 days, I would estimate that by now Apple has probably all but completely closed the gap, with a potential to surge back into the lead this quarter.That all being said, I think Android handsets, as they do have to differentiate themselves on cost more so than Apple, will always end up being the budget option which will get the volume, if not the profit, long term. I don't have any issue with Android doing well, and actually it's nice to see how Samsung has improved from the horrifically bad Samsung Omnia I bought over an iPhone back in the day (boy do I regret that choice). All of this just means more competition which benefits the consumer.[/citation]
Damn it, for once I can't argue with you. It will be interesting to see what kind of boost the 4S will make to Apple's 4th quarter sales figures. This article should be revisited in January or February after Apple's 4th quarter ends. I'm curious to see where both companies stand then.

I never owned a Samsung until recently with the Charge, and I have to say it's one sweet phone. It easily rivals my girl's iPhone 4, though with a better screen (not just size, but brightness and clarity), signal quality/strength (though that's more of an AT&T issue), versatility (LTE + wi-fi tethering = amazing), though her phone clearly beats mine in one aspect. Battery life, which lately has become a rather frustrating nuisance for me.

 

[eddieroolz]

Congratulations. Count your blessings that the Galaxy line is not subject to a sales ban.

 

[STravis]

[citation][nom]SaturationPoint[/nomOnce a phone is shipped it is more or less considered money in the bank for Samsung, whether the retailers sells it or not, thats not Samsung's problem, it is why a retailer will only order as many phones as they feel they are able to shift (and often why stores have the temporarily out of stock sign), rarely will a manufacturer take back a shipment of unsold merchandise)[/citation]

That is not the case..notice how BestBuy told HP to eat it...

http/www.itnews.com.au/News/267211,best-buy-pressures-hp-on-unsold-touchpads.aspx

 

[amk-aka-Phantom]

Umm...don't know where you are from, but here in the US we can only choose from three carriers. It looks like there are only 1-3 carriers available per country, and knowing Apple I find it hard to believe that they would allow just "any" carrier to use their phones. Here is a complete list: http/support.apple.com/kb/ht1937

For the 9000th time... US IS NOT THE ONLY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. And it's also not the country where Samsung sells most of their phones.

 

[amk-aka-Phantom]

[citation][nom]eddieroolz[/nom]Congratulations. Count your blessings that the Galaxy line is not subject to a sales ban.[/citation]

Lol, not here in Asia, where stupid US laws don't apply. Apple can explode with anger all they like, but there're tons of phones that infringe their so-called "patents" over here and no one will ever care. Nobody will even bother to remove the swipe gesture as a screen unlocker from the models sold here. It's awesome.

 

[back_by_demand]

[citation][nom]amk-aka-phantom[/nom]For the 9000th time... US IS NOT THE ONLY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. And it's also not the country where Samsung sells most of their phones.[/citation]
Don't bother, it's not a battle you are going to win, 5% of the world's population think they are the whole world and nothing we say will change that.

 

[Guest]

@STravis

actually it is, did you miss the "rarely will a manufacturer take back a shipment of unsold merchandise", i would like to draw your attention to the word rarely, it means it does happen but not often, the article you mentioned is one of those exceptions, otherwise best buy would just order heaps of iPhone shift only what they can and send the rest back to Apple (never going happen). In reality HP only agreed to take back the devices because they were planning on writing it off as capital losses, had HP not decided to do so then there is no chance in hell best buy would get their way.