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Apple Passes Nokia and Holds Off Samsung to Become World's Top Smartphone Vendor

nerdo said:
Then drop the iPad and create another non-existing market, but noo people still want to pretend Apple didn't do anything special. Everybody can have their preferences, but to pretend this means nothing and apple is just some gimmicky toy company for snobs is pathetic.
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I'm not saying Apple didn't do anything special, I just don't agree that it's the products themselves that is special. The iDevices, especially the iPad, are to me gimmicky toys.
I like iPad, as a toy.
Apple has always been best at marketing and building their image, people want their products because it has the image of being cool and trendy. It's a domino effect, Apple has gone from being products that geeks had because they wanted to have something that every one else didn't have to products that people want because every one else has it.

Going mental? Well only very sad lonely people would fill the big hole in their life with rooting for a phone maker :)
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samsung's progress is f*cken amazing, but not that surprising. I saw on one website that the samsung galaxy s2 is outselling the iphone 4 in the uk and korea, and the S1 was meant to be a success in australia and germany.

apple's success is also amazing, not as amazing as a 500% growth obviously, but jesus crist just look at how successful the iphone has become :eek:

it's amazing such a simple phone which is basically a wall of apps on a phone could be the most wanted phone in the world!
 
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Winni said:
andyr2120 said:
Samsung is not even the top Android device seller in the U.S. market. I didn't expect them to be so strong in global sales (although I realize they are a huge and very successful company in many different markets).
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Yeah, it usually comes as a shock to most US-Americans that there is a whole world outside the US borders - a world that does not feel, think or behave American at all...

Anyway. Samsung is a very big player here in Germany, and it's easier to find people with a Samsung Galaxy S1 or S2 than it is to find people with an iPod or an iPhone.

The "rebirth" of Apple still is mostly a US phenomenon.
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i actually have to agree, at least from personal experience. lots of ppl ik were sick of waiting for the 5th and r now samsung galaxy owners, after that more people followed. out of a group of ten close friends and previous iphone owners im the last one left with an iphone and it feels tiny and old next to it
 
Winni said:
Yeah, it usually comes as a shock to most US-Americans that there is a whole world outside the US borders - a world that does not feel, think or behave American at all...

Anyway. Samsung is a very big player here in Germany, and it's easier to find people with a Samsung Galaxy S1 or S2 than it is to find people with an iPod or an iPhone.

The "rebirth" of Apple still is mostly a US phenomenon.
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Yeah... I noticed that in the Frankfurt airport last month. In my waiting area I counted over 20 Apple logo's around me. Mostly MacBooks, but at least 5 iPads and many iPhones. I should have taken a picture. It was like a mini Apple fest. German style! :D

It does seem that Samsung and Apple are burning up the pavement in smart phones. RIM and Nokia seems to be loosing ground fast. With the new iPhone coming, these numbers will look very interesting in October too.

But, as we've seen, this is a very fluid market. Everyone changes their phones every 2-3 years, so who knows what the next best thing will be and who will make it?
 
mrochester said:
It looks like Apple's status as the worlds top smartphone vendor will be short lived.
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In market share yes.
But in profits no.

Apple will hold the "most profit from smartphones" crown for along time to come. And that's the important title to have.
 
Wow, yesterday Apple was third... now first :eek::eek::eek::eek:

Must have sold a lot of iPhones over night, right guis? :eek:
 
:mad: Maybe these numbers will shut up Wall Street and those jackass fund managers about how Android is just going to just roll over Apple's iPhone and iOS ecosystem. All those knuckleheads were saying last quarter as to how the delay of the iPhone 5 would stop all iPhone sales because consumers wouldn't purchase some aging iPhone 4 while all Android vendors were coming out with the latest and greatest smartphones every couple of weeks. If Wall Street had any brains or morality at all, they'd observe these numbers and see how stupid their rampant speculation turned out.

Android is not some collective force. Each Android smartphone vendor is competing with one another. It's not like they're combining their earnings into one big revenue pool they all share equally. Every penny Apple makes from iPhone sales goes directly to Apple and no one else. Within four years, Apple has gone from zero to becoming the most powerful force as a single company in the cellphone industry and my bet is this is only the beginning. Four years ago it was being said that Apple's iPhone wouldn't stand a chance because Apple knew NOTHING about cellphones and the iPhone was just one overpriced model that consumers would get bored with in a short while.

Wall Street continues with this same rant of how Android absolutely can't be beat and that its market share will grow indefinitely. The iPhone will continue to hold the high-end to middle of the smartphone market and that will easily make Apple the wealthiest company no matter how many low-end Android smartphones are sold. Android is not eating Apple's market share at all. Delays or not, consumers will continue to crave the iPhone. Those lying meatsacks of Wall Street and fund managers are the most ignorant people in the world or just corrupt to the bone. Wait until iPhone 5 is released and see how Apple's best holiday quarter turns the collective cellphone industry on its head. :D
 
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This is gonna be good!
 
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i actually have to agree, at least from personal experience. lots of ppl ik were sick of waiting for the 5th and r now samsung galaxy owners, after that more people followed. out of a group of ten close friends and previous iphone owners im the last one left with an iphone and it feels tiny and old next to it
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I have to disagree. If you have iPhone 4 it works great today as it did yesterday, so why wait at all? You keep using a phone - that's all.

I do not follow this "logic" - 'I'm sick of waiting, so i got [insert whatever you like]'.

Instead of investing in one platform you will be investing in two platforms :rolleyes:
 
Shasterball said:
I don't understand why these numbers contradict the numbers in the previous MacRumors story.
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Previous Macrumors story was about all cell phones combined, this is just about smartphones.

Apple should thank Nokia for committing suicide with their WP7 announcement. With still no units shipped, no one wants to touch Nokia's Symbian line now that Elop announced its death.
 
nerdo said:
Unbelievable growth for Samsung, but putting out just the hardware compare to setting up an entire eco-system that has to be translated, carrier contracts and financially sorted out AND get a local appstore setup etc. In every single country they release the iPhone is very different from dropping android in a piece of hardware.

So to be honest I'm 100X more impressed by apple pulling it off then Samsung. How many companies do you know that not just entered a market but revolutionized it in 3 years? Then end up almost at the top.
Then drop the iPad and create another non-existing market, but noo people still want to pretend Apple didn't do anything special. Everybody can have their preferences, but to pretend this means nothing and apple is just some gimmicky toy company for snobs is pathetic.

Going mental? Well only very sad lonely people would fill the big hole in their life with rooting for a phone maker :)
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Of course you are, then again you're the equivalent of the arts people that praise gilded poop. One could easily make the reverse statement, as well, saying in fact just about as little as you just did.
 
Ashin said:
Wow, yesterday Apple was third... now first :eek::eek::eek::eek:

Must have sold a lot of iPhones over night, right guis? :eek:
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Shasterball said:
I don't understand why these numbers contradict the numbers in the previous MacRumors story.
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One set of numbers show all phones, one set of numbers only show smartphones. Apple is third in all cell phones sold, and first in smartphones sold...
 
KnightWRX said:
Previous Macrumors story was about all cell phones combined, this is just about smartphones.

Apple should thank Nokia for committing suicide with their WP7 announcement. With still no units shipped, no one wants to touch Nokia's Symbian line now that Elop announced its death.
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AHA! Makes sense. :)
 
Where's HTC on this list? I see more HTC Android & Windows phones than any other non-Apple smartphone here in the UK.
 
stevensr123 said:
samsung's progress is f*cken amazing, but not that surprising. I saw on one website that the samsung galaxy s2 is outselling the iphone 4 in the uk and korea, and the S1 was meant to be a success in australia and germany.

apple's success is also amazing, not as amazing as a 500% growth obviously, but jesus crist just look at how successful the iphone has become :eek:

it's amazing such a simple phone which is basically a wall of apps on a phone could be the most wanted phone in the world!
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Yeah, its like they invented the two-sided market!!!1!

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The amazing part is not that a "wall of apps" is desired, that is quite natural, the amazing part is that tech is now advanced enough to provide that experience in a satisfactory way.
 
Good to see Samsung doing so well. They deserve it thanks to their epic phones. I imagine they would be number 1 if SG2 was in USA.
 
That jump Samsung made is really impressive. They only made 3 million/year last year? What's even more impressive is that their phone sucks and they were still able to pull that off. I wonder what will happen when they release a phone that doesn't have a pixelated screen and that has a working GPS.


Also since these numbers seem to fluctuate so much each year - it's really kind of crazy to think of 20.3 as being greater than 19.2. For all practical purposes they are equivalent.
 
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