my numbers mean enough for me to decide which I would rather. Thanks
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sorry to hear. I guess you can choose not to use Apple and I will choose to use them based on different experiences
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Apple Overtakes Samsung to Become Largest Mobile Phone Vendor in U.S.
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my numbers mean enough for me to decide which I would rather. Thanks
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sorry to hear. I guess you can choose not to use Apple and I will choose to use them based on different experiences
This is like Samsung having the football in possession longer and more yardage, but Apple makes more touchdowns.
Samsung might sell more phones for the year, but Apple makes tons more money.
That's what happens when you sacrifice battery for thinness.
Use Extra batteries or switch to extended batteries which last for few days for $15. Oh right, you can't..
Given that The 5 has sold almost twice the units of the S3, and has been available for just over half as long, any comparison is pointless.
Your disregarding the fact iOS & Android are not phones but operating systems. All the people I've talked too who own the iPhone never mention the fact they want iOS, they only want the iPhone. Most don't even know what iOS is or what it does.
The general public don't separate the operating system from the phone. They talk about phone models, not about wanting the operating systems.
What do you mean I can't? Yeah I can, but I don't want to buy an awkward battery extension.
I absolutely CANNOT wait until the news says that the iPhone 5 was the most sold phone in the quarter ...my cousin who is a Android fanatic talks ish everyday saying "the S3 is the most sold phone smartphone in the world for a reason". He thinks the S3 outsold the iPhone 5 last quarter
By the way, how do you know the i5 sold twice the amount of S3 units?
Samsung bought (literally) market share. Apple is still in it for margins and has sufficient marketshare to sustain a growing ecosystem.
For now, Apple dominates profits in the industry and for all practical purposes, Samsung gets the balance. Neither model is particularly sustainable down the road a few years when the world market for smartphones nears saturation.
I expect that Apple will keep its current iOS product line and expand with both a cheaper iPhone, a "larger" iPhone, and an updated iPhone 5 all while managing an expanding supply chain. Cries of lack of innovation belie a maturing market, so expect fewer breakthrough features, and a continuation of a steady evolution that meets or exceeds most of the needs of consumers (this applies to Samsung as well).
I believe that Samsung has a tougher job of sustaining the market share that they captured. They can't sustain 8-12 B$ a year sales and marketing on the margins that they are capturing, and there are manufacturers in China that will be able to capture some of Samsung's gains. Android OS benefitted the rapid rise of Samsung, but I doubt that it's ubiquity will be any protection from competition of the other OEM's.
Reader's digest version; as a two horse race that analyst's love, it isn't near over. My interest lies more in which of the underdogs, Blackberry, HTC, Sony, Nokia, or Motorola will be able to move itself into a solid 3rd place in either profits or marketshare.
Samsung had record profits for Q4... due in part to how well the S3/Notes are selling:
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/01/24/business/samsung-record-fourth-quarter-2012-profits/index.html
So while Samsung's margins maybe lower than Apple's, they're still very healthy.
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Perhaps only in the US; but worldwide, Android is doing very very well... even in Canada.
But if you look at this chart, Samsung outsold Apple over the past couple of years:
http://www.gsmarena.com/strategy_analytics_apple_top_phone_maker_in_us_for_q4_-news-5459.php
Those numbers are based on shipments not sales. Samsung sales are way lower than their shipments, but there is no real way to know because Samsung does not reveal there shipments or sales. We're as Apple shipment numbers turned into sales.
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I don't know, but projections were 50-60 million sold, and Samsung peeps were crowing about 30 million total S3's sold.
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Samsung had record profits for Q4... due in part to how well the S3/Notes are selling:
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/01/24/business/samsung-record-fourth-quarter-2012-profits/index.html
So while Samsung's margins maybe lower than Apple's, they're still very healthy.
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But Remember Samsung's largest customer is Apple. Apple is pulling back anything they can from Samsung which does not reflect in their profits now but will over the next few years.
Samsung had record profits for Q4... due in part to how well the S3/Notes are selling:
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/01/24/business/samsung-record-fourth-quarter-2012-profits/index.html
So while Samsung's margins maybe lower than Apple's, they're still very healthy.
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But Remember Samsung's largest customer is Apple. Apple is pulling back anything they can from Samsung which does not reflect in their profits now but will over the next few years.
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I also read that Apple overtook Samsung on phone sales in the Ward 2 district in Tucson, Arizona.
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You're a legend. Your thread was over 100 pages.
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You're a legend. Your thread was over 100 pages.
haha yeah! you too
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When consumers buy a phone they generally have these things in mind:
How cool does it look?
Is it affordable?
Will it last long?
Does it run iOS or Android (personal preference)?
Obviously the iPhone looks a tonne better than the Samsung but at a slightly higher cost. They will both last long giving that you have no faults with either device. Both phones can have battery replacements just the S3 you can do it yourself. iOS or Android seems to be about familiarity. Whatever someone gets used to automatically becomes "the better system" in their mind even when not even testing out the competitor.
For me I go for looks and aesthetics over functionality in my phones because a phone is meant to be used as a phone and not something to hack security doors open etc. Automatically I chose Apple for the physical and software design. I look at the OSs in terms of a jigsaw puzzle. iOS seems to be a made puzzle whereas android you have to dig a bit into the UI to get where you want to be (unmade puzzle). I know which I prefer and I have used both. The biggest thing for me though is how it looks from the outside. You can't beat aluminium and I hope Apple continue using it.
I am pretty sure a large percentage of sales of the Samsung phones are generally sheeping sales from iPhone haters getting their voice out there. Apple has done a great job in coming out on top again with all the negativity thrown at them in a world full of closed minded people.
Wildly innacurate - the 5 made up over half of all iPhone sales last quarter (52%). Cook says this was the same type of split they saw last year with the 4S too, though he could just be saying that.
Obviously if you're looking at the whole year, the 5 has a HUGE disadvantage given that it was released at the end of the year.....
To say Apple massively underperformed given they took the top phone sales spot from Samsung for the first time since 2008 is laughable....
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You're a legend. Your thread was over 100 pages.
Wait. Samcraig is the original "you're holding it wrong" guy? Holy crap! I never knew I was talking to royalty all this time. :O