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Apple and Samsung Combined for Over One-Third of Smartphone Sales in Second Quarter
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Take your own advice. Apple is a CUSTOMER of Samsung. Therefore Apple is putting money into Sammy's pockets so don't pretend that Samsung is doing Apple any favors. If anything Sammy's acts of vengeance towards Apple is very stupid. They sell chips and screens to Apple but at the same time they are trying to screw Apple's iPhone business.
its not the hardware,
it's a really pathetically written piece of bloated crap that they call touchwiz.
Exactly. Given that Apple makes about as much money as Google before the iPhone is even taken into account, I wonder what would happen to the marketshare if they sold iPhone 6 at cost.
There are more players, they just suck. There are Windows Phones and there were/are Blackberry phones. If these companies can't produce a selling product to compete with Android and iOS that's their own fault.
Yep. Unless, like many on here, your own self-worth is dependent on what consumer electronics company you use.
What strikes me is less Apple's dominance of the market, and more its room to grow sales and marketshare at the expense of its competitors.
Pundits are like, the cell phone market is saturated! Well if you're Apple you can always keep eating up slices of Samsung pie.
Pundits are like, the cell phone market is saturated! Well if you're Apple you can always keep eating up slices of Samsung pie.
Actually Samsung's innovation largely depends on Apple's innovation.
Actually - there are several ways Samsung has been innovating outside of Apple. For one, I would pit the Samsung GS5 or 6 camera against the iPhone. Their features and quality are damn good.
Reviews promised me amazing battery life, which turned out to be 12 hours max unless I switch off 3G and hardly ever use the screen. What's the point in having a device with great features if you can't use it because battery dies? I had to charge it twice a day. (And I'm not a power user.) The first one just died on me, I put it by the bed when I went to sleep and it failed to ring the alarm in the morning, making me oversleep for an important appointment, and then I found out that "backup" only backs up SOME contacts and that's about it. Both my Galaxy S IIIs scratched from just being in a pocket. Not with keys or coins. Just in a pocket. I never managed to make the music play without randomly stopping or skipping, I ended up buying Poweramp and setting all buffers to max and priority to highest, and it STILL would occasionally take breaks in the middle of the song. Micro SD would unmount randomly until I stuck a piece of paper in the slot. Etc. I could go on. It was worse than a Sony Ericsson phone I had that required special headphones to work, and that's an achievement.
I would love Sony Xperia to succeed. I have a Z3 Compact and it's everything that Samsung wasn't. Perfect size, incredible battery, great camera, music actually plays, fab screen, etc. The only reason I didn't go back to iPhone was the calendar widget constantly present on the screen, I used an iPhone for a few weeks and found I keep on missing appointments because I forget to click on Calendar. If one day Apple get proper on-screen widgets rather than just Notification Centre I might go back to an iPhone. I don't know why Xperia isn't more successful, it really should be.
The article mostly talks about this quarter, which is always a low one for Apple, as people are awaiting the new iPhone, plus Samsung have just brought out the new Galaxy S6's. So of course Apple will be down this quarter, whilst Samsung is up.
I used to be a big Samsung fan mobile wise and got many to switch to various models including the original note, however 2 years ago they made a change to their security policy and for my use that was a no no. Im not the average consumer and i suffer from Obsessive flashing disorder (of the rom variety) the moment samsung introduced the efuse i and many others switched. Originally Samsung wooed the XDA crowd but by introducing the efuse and slowness to releases any sources for their exynos processors we left in droves.
Now i would not switch to an iphone as it does not suit my needs in any way (however i think they are stuuning pieces of kit with the best camera out there), but switched to a Nexus. However those i brought on board the samsung train have now also departed as Samsung thought they could compete with Apple in the higher end. Only problem was there mid range offerings were poor. This year alone 3 people took my advice and switched to One Plus Ones as they offered high end specs for a third of the cost. I dont recommend Samsungs any more but either the OPO or Nexus range.
By no means Samsung is doomed they just need to remember the middle crowd with a decent price tag as thats being eaten by OPO, Huawei or Xiaomi.
But Either way Samsung is in a good position as it has its cake and eats it, If its mobile sales go down and Apples sales go up, thats more components sold with none of the grief of supporting it lol, maybe not as much profit but compared to all the other contenders thats a great position to be in
Now i would not switch to an iphone as it does not suit my needs in any way (however i think they are stuuning pieces of kit with the best camera out there), but switched to a Nexus. However those i brought on board the samsung train have now also departed as Samsung thought they could compete with Apple in the higher end. Only problem was there mid range offerings were poor. This year alone 3 people took my advice and switched to One Plus Ones as they offered high end specs for a third of the cost. I dont recommend Samsungs any more but either the OPO or Nexus range.
By no means Samsung is doomed they just need to remember the middle crowd with a decent price tag as thats being eaten by OPO, Huawei or Xiaomi.
But Either way Samsung is in a good position as it has its cake and eats it, If its mobile sales go down and Apples sales go up, thats more components sold with none of the grief of supporting it lol, maybe not as much profit but compared to all the other contenders thats a great position to be in
Actually, Samsung shipments dropped from same quarter last year.
*cackles*
S6 is now advertised here on two-year contract for €29, no pre-payment. Someone's trying to offload full warehouses methinks.
*cackles*
S6 is now advertised here on two-year contract for €29, no pre-payment. Someone's trying to offload full warehouses methinks.
2 things...
1) That is an astronomical proportion of Other, and would have expected the Apple+Samsung combo to be much larger.
2) Does anyone know the current breakout for US only? (And/or, is the Other category dominated by particular countries, I would presume China and India.)
1) That is an astronomical proportion of Other, and would have expected the Apple+Samsung combo to be much larger.
2) Does anyone know the current breakout for US only? (And/or, is the Other category dominated by particular countries, I would presume China and India.)
This doesn't look like a 2 horse race to me. Huawei sold nearly as many phones this quarter as Apple sold in the year ago quarter - if Apple doesn't grow next year and Huawei has a similar growth, they could overtake Apple. It wouldn't be a 2 horse race if it wasn't conceivable that a third horse could overtake one of the other two. Dismissing Huawei in mobile phones would be like dismissing Apple in laptops.
I agree Huawei have started to up there game, i nearly brought the ascend mate 7 due to screen size but could not get past the emotionui which makes TW look great, However they are rumoured to be producing the next Nexus instead of Motorola so they will also be in a good position
Question -- are the samsung numbers only for smartphones over $500? Or what is the definition of premium phones? I ask because I though Apple actually led is sales volume in the top end and that samsung led in all other segments since Apple did not compete in those.
Huawei's the one doing it right. Shipment volume up 48.1%
I think its probably what is their mix of profitable high end vs the low end fodder of the android basement
I wonder if Microsoft actually sells any phones. I certainly don't know anybody who has one. Zune curse strikes again?
Why is there so much ridicule towards the Chinese on this forum? A lot of it is racist.
Samsung market share is still above Apple - so Apple is doomed.
Wait a second - Galaxy 6 just issued a profit warning:
http://www.zacks.com/stock/news/180958/korea-etfs-in-focus-on-samsung-profit-warning
Wait a second - Galaxy 6 just issued a profit warning:
http://www.zacks.com/stock/news/180958/korea-etfs-in-focus-on-samsung-profit-warning
Funny how Apple "innovated" the larger screen of the 6+ after Samsung has had it on their Note line for several years.
"In spite of Samsung reporting lower-than-expected results, its shares rose 2.1% in Tuesday’s trading session, outperforming the broader markets that were down by 0.3%."
I officially don't understand how stock trading works.