We can to some extent.That table reflects handsets not just smart phones. The Android phone manufacturers lump dumb phones, feature phones and smart phones together as handsets. It would be interesting to see that broke out by type of handsets.
Let's break that out by type of handset and see how that looks. That will be a telling tale.
Wow Samsung is dominating, I imagine when the SGS3 comes out their share will shoot up even further!
samsung would do anything to gain market share even if it means they make no profit out of it. both galaxy note and galaxy nexus are heavily discounted, can buy either one of them outright for less than $500 now.
Remember, this is for ALL mobile phones. From the one-trick junkers to actual "smartphones."
Apple leads in smartphones.
samsung would do anything to gain market share even if it means they make no profit out of it. both galaxy note and galaxy nexus are heavily discounted, can buy either one of them outright for less than $500 now.
Huh? IDC claims Samsung leads in Smartphones - 42M to Apple's 35M. I have no idea how they arrive at that number since Samsung doesnt release shipped or sold figures, but that's what is being estimated.
Wow Samsung is dominating, I imagine when the SGS3 comes out their share will shoot up even further!
Not only, you are wrong. I swerad myself, i would never again buy a iPhone without bluetooth transfer possibility and an option to add or remoove flash player for free! But despite that, no matter how iPhone updates, it will never beat the samsung S3. And as S2 is still better in many ways, so does S3 even be better than iPhone 5! While i am a macbook pro user, cause i love it, but i am and will be never a iPhone fun, cause apple wants it so.In my humble opinion, what could send Apple to permanent domination of the cellphone market are two things:
1. Once they can get a large, steady supply of the Qualcomm-designed MDM9615 "all-in-one" cellphone chipset, don't be surprised the next iPhone will essentially become a "universal" cellphone that works on just about any CDMA, GSM and 3GPP LTE implementation. And if Apple designs the antenna right, it might just happen.
2. The new iPhone implements NFC mobile payments that is compatible with the widely-used FeliCa standard and the new ISIS system that is rolling out this summer.
Yeah because the 4S has hardly sold at all. Just because the physical look and feel was the same as the 4 doesn't mean it wasn't a different phone.
S5660, S5830, S5690, S5570 are showing up at 'less than 400' without a contract for me. (Some less than 200)Anywhere in the world, you cannot find a Samsung smartphone for less than $400
I've used both phones and the difference between a 4S and 4 is negligible. The 4S in the grand scheme of things wasn't a big fail in the market-place because it was an iPhone. However, it's important to realize that the phone "succeeded" due to the infrastructure built up from the Apple brand and the success of the previous iPhones. The 4S in itself was a pretty unremarkable upgrade.
I can guarantee that if Apple continue with one or two more upgrades like the 4S (I know they won't but for arguments sake), they'd get swamped by Android, etc.
Yeah because the 4S has hardly sold at all. Just because the physical look and feel was the same as the 4 doesn't mean it wasn't a different phone.
I've used both phones and the difference between a 4S and 4 is negligible. The 4S in the grand scheme of things wasn't a big fail in the market-place because it was an iPhone. However, it's important to realize that the phone "succeeded" due to the infrastructure built up from the Apple brand and the success of the previous iPhones. The 4S in itself was a pretty unremarkable upgrade.
I can guarantee that if Apple continue with one or two more upgrades like the 4S (I know they won't but for arguments sake), they'd get swamped by Android, etc.
IMO, the iPhone has hit close to its peak subscriber base UNLESS it comes out with something new and really innovative to persuade Android owners to switch.
At first, iPhones had limited availability to AT&T(in the states) but now that they have branched out to pretty much all carriers over the last few years, those who wanted an iPhone from the carrier of their choice have bought them.
Now all you are seeing when the new iPhone comes out(like the 4S) are current iPhone owners upgrading, no new subscribers.