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Apple Hits New High with 8.8% of Worldwide Mobile Phone Market in 1Q 2012
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These are phones with 128 mb inernat memory. There are feature phones much better that this.
If this is a smartphone, samsung should just say that all 93 million phone they sold are smartphones.
These are phones with 128 mb inernat memory. There are feature phones much better that this.
If this is a smartphone, samsung should just say that all 93 million phone they sold are smartphones.
Yeah no idea but he must have said something. Although I have a two hundred person ignore list of people who should probably be banned before him. That being said I think discussing moderation is a no no.
What jumps out at me is the volatility. In how many businesses do all the top players post double-digit gains or losses in market share?
Your going to be heart broken when you find out samsung is the mfg of all the guts in all of you iphones and ipads, they also just built a new factory in texas to supply Apple with the A6 chip bump up. Apples a long way from ending thier partnerships with samsung any time soon.
My next phone is the iPhone. Can't wait.
Same thing my droid friends said before they made the switch to the best smartphone on the market - iPhone!
I thought Samsung's IM division had revenue of 23.2 trillion won ~= US$ 20.6 billion. Perhaps different exchange rate. Anyway...
You're mixing up retail and wholesale prices.
How much a phone sells for to the public, is not how much the retailer paid the phone maker.
That's the power of Apple's triple play. Clever Marketing, Cult like worshipers spreading "The Word", Insatiable Greed = Obscene Profits & Explosive Sales, Simply Brilliant.
I'm curious. What is it you think that android will have in hardware for this year and next besides the quad core that will be leaps and bounds way better than iPad 3 specs. LTE? Bluetooth 4? NFC? They can't even upgrade current phones to ICS which is still <2% of the installed base
Citation please for your assertion that "samsung is the mfg of all the guts in all of you iphones and ipads".
According to what I find: http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iPad-3-4G-Teardown/8277/1:
"The iPad's new A5X application processor, with improved graphics horsepower, is based on energy-efficient technology licensed from Britain's ARM Holding and is manufactured by Qualcomm, as in past Apple devices."
"The NAND, part number THGVX1G7D2GLA08 is a 16 GB 24 nm MLC Flash from Toshiba"
More to be found in the article I cited.
I'm curious to know what quad core phone or tablet is noticeably better in terms of performance than iPhone 4S or iPad. I keep hearing about how such and such device is quad core but I never hear about the benefits to the end user in terms of over all end user experience. As long as my phone does what I want it to and the UI isn't laggy I could care less how many cores the processor has.I'm curious. What is it you think that android will have in hardware for this year and next besides the quad core that will be leaps and bounds way better than iPad 3 specs. LTE? Bluetooth 4? NFC? They can't even upgrade current phones to ICS which is still <2% of the installed base
If Apple follows what they have done in the past, the iPhone 4 will replace the 3GS as the free iPhone. The 3GS will then be retired.
So the 35M who purchased iPhones are members of a cult, or are to stupid to know they're being played by Apple? Yet the 42M or so who purchased Samsung phones aren't? Brilliant logic there.
His point was that it is likely that the top 4 phones sold in 2012 will all be iPhones.
iPhone 4S
iPhone 4
iPhone 3GS
iPhone (5?)
The post when read correctly says "cult like".
Stupid is your word, perhaps said from a position of hyper sensitivity.
Actually my post was tongue-in-cheek, an expression you're free to Lookup on Google.
Not all of us, take things so seriously
Oh... and by the way? I've got over $20K invested in my late model Macs, iPhones, iPads, Airport Base Station, 3TB Time Capsule, and a vast array of other Apple stuff.
With some luck I just may qualify as cult like
You'll both have to help me here and point out where I said "availability of choice" or Samsung's methods are bad. I was just contrasting Apple's laser-focused approach to product development with Samsung's everything-but-the-kitchen-sink approach and pointing out that it's not hard to see why one company makes more money than the other. I didn't express any personal opinion about one or the other but both of you react as if I had. Odd.
You keep confusing posts talking about consumer issues and company issues. Samsung makes less from their phones because of how they price them. Also, their method is basically planning to write off revenue instead of gaining it. From a managerial/accounting perspective, it's a little crazy. It can only work when you continue to have high sales. Just ask Nokia what happens when sales start dipping.
Can I see your badge?
feel free to read over any of these, by the way qualcomm makes the phone chips that give you the ability to send and recieve calls and connect to 3g 4g whatever, the phone part of the iphone, just like broadcomm makes the wireless chip to go online. Samsung makes the A4, A5, A5X, the current retina display, and the nand and ram, the latest ipad has Apple using both samsung and toshiba for nand. Im pretty sure they make the power managing controller chip as well.
http://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/02...amsungs-texas-chip-making-plant-says-analyst/
http://www.isuppli.com/Teardowns/News/pages/New-iPad-32-GB-4G-Carries-364-35-Bill-of-Materials.aspx
http://www.informationweek.com/news/galleries/hardware/processors/229300842
http://www.dailytech.com/Samsung+Now+Making+Apples+SmartphoneTablet+Chips+in+Texas/article23537.htm
http://www.bgr.com/2011/09/22/apple...iphone-and-ipad-pushing-samsung-further-away/
http://blogs.wsj.com/korearealtime/2012/03/16/in-new-ipad-samsung-display-and-processor/
