This article reminds me of a soviet era propaganda, where they were trying to prove that socialism is beating the captitalism.
The author can crunch the numbers to make Apple appear in a better light any way he pleases, but the facts remain:
In Global Smartphone sales in Q$ 2012 Samsung sold 62.9M smartphones vs Apple's 47.8. It is a comparison of all smartphones that these companies produce and sell. It shouldn't matter if Samsung makes 20 vs Apple's iPhone 3G/4/4S/5. If Samsung can output a bigger variaty of phones that people want, it shouldn't be held against them in the comperison.
For the whole year, Samsung sold 205M smartphones vs Apple's 130. That is 70M more, not a number that should be discounted, but I'm sure the Apple fanbase will be able to rebuke it somehow.
As far as Android vs iOS in Q4, 152M Android smartphones were sold in Q4 vs 47M iOS, that's a 100M more!
For 2012, the numbers are even more profound; 479M vs 135.8M, a differene of 350M smartphones. iOS market share went from 26% to 19% in a year.
When I look at these numbers, I don't see Apple winning anything. All I see is an article that distorts reality to keep the blind dumb and happy.
The other point this article forgets to point out is that the S3 is about to be replaced. A point that macrumors quikly pointed out about the 4S when the S3 outsold it. At least a mention would have been nice.