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Samsung overtakes Apple in smartphone race
KOREAN HARDWARE GIANT Samsung has leap-frogged Apple to gain the top smartphone vendor spot.
Based on global smartphone shipments in the third quarter, Samsung is the new leader. It has taken the top spot from Apple by shipping a total of 27.8 million units for 23.8 per cent market share.
This is according to research reported by Strategy Analytics, which said the industry has seen year-on-year growth of 44 per cent in smartphone shipments to a record high of 117 million units.
Samsung has its Galaxy S II handset to thank for the most part, as it one of the biggest rivals to the cappuccino company's Iphone. Shipments of Samsung's smartphones increased almost four times compared to the same quarter last year, which saw shipments of 7.5 million units.
Apple saw a small increase of 3 million shipments to 17.1 million units, but it's important to note that the latest Iphone 4S wasn't launched until the fourth quarter, so many customers might have been holding out for that. Apple has said it sold 4 million Iphone 4S units in its first weekend on sale.
Neil Mawston, director at Strategy Analytics said, "After just one quarter in the top spot, Apple slipped behind Samsung to second position and captured 15 percent share."
"We believe Apple's growth during the third quarter was affected by consumers and operators awaiting the launch of the new iPhone 4S in the fourth quarter," he added.
A year ago, Nokia was still very much in the front seat with 26.5 million units shipped and a market share of 32.7 per cent. A year later its shipments have fallen by 9.7 million units and it lost 18.3 per cent market share.
Like Apple, Nokia has also waited until the fourth quarter to announce its latest flagship Windows Phone 7.5 handset, the Lumia 800, and a more budget version in the Lumia 710. It will be hoping to make a comeback with these devices starting this quarter.
Tom Kang, director at Strategy Analytics said, "The recent launch of the new Microsoft Lumia portfolio has helped to raise Nokia's profile, and Nokia will be hoping the partnership with Microsoft can drive at least an L-shaped recovery in its global smartphone market share over the next few months." µ
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"samsung just plain went out and copied them... "
lets analyze that, crApple bought components from Samsung and integrated them into iPhone copied Samsung's interface
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http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/04/19/android_fans_accuse_apple_of_copying_samsung_first.html
just gave them colorful icons, and everything else is ripped off from Plam and WinMO, but thats always been crApples style steal ideas and in some cases inprove on them...
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Just really read the link you posted! Case of "I rely on an article I have not read"
@LPF
to quote LPF
"samsung just plain went out and copied them... "
lets analyze that, crApple bought components from Samsung and integrated them into iPhone copied Samsung's interface
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/04/19/android_fans_accuse_apple_of_copying_samsung_first.html
just gave them colorful icons, and everything else is ripped off from Plam and WinMO, but thats always been crApples style steal ideas and in some cases inprove on them...
@bigger_luddite
personally I don't use crApple and never did, but the majority of home user's in my experience had macs in the early 80's...We usually had IBM, still remember the days of loading a stack of 8" floppies just to boot up...LOL
I was there and MISSED that entirely. Must have run with a more technical crowd that wanted IBM compatibles at minimum, or DEC, VAX, and such in medium size if not "big iron", with Unix. Never known anyone who even had a Mac until this century, and most of them rue the day they fell for paying twice too much. Its cutesy toyness turns everyone off. Besides, nearly everyone today still uses at least part of IBM's 1981 hardware design, bet you are if have an Apple on Intel hardware. And since the change to OSX, there's NOTHING left of the Mac except the sappy smile.
The problem is that tiredof getting their asses handed to them by apple, samsung just plain went out and copied them... so yeah just like windows lol
I couldn't really blame the late Mr. Jobs for getting all nutty there, he was reliving the 80's when everyone and their mother wanted a Mac, and along came windows then everyone wanted a PC. Then they had iPod, iPhone and ipad and along came Android and it all starts over again.