Apple will soon be the #1 phablet maker, but how soon?

[webbuzz]

If you say so.

I do.

 

[Lloydbm41]

It's not really right to compare that quarter, because it's the one when note 3 launched (obviously highest number of sales), and iPhone 5 was just about to be replaced by 5s. In the quarter when the 5s and 5c were being sold for the full 3 months, Apple has sold 51 million of them (35 million or more were 5s).
In the past year, Apple has sold at least 160 million iPhones (around 100 million of those are iPhone 5s). The vast majority of others were iPhone 5C, with 4s not having too much of a share. This year however, there are two flagship devices (with 5s and 5c as mid/low end) and it's very hard to predict what percentages will be between them.

We don't know how many of each phone style Apple has sold, because they don't release individual numbers for each style, just overall numbers. Numbers are just guesses in this case, but I doubt Apple will sell 100 million 6+'s this year and I doubt Samsung will stop selling Notes or sell fewer of them. If anything, each quarter has shown Samsung sells more Notes than the previous quarter.

 

[Hal~9000]

Apple selling phablets now instead of one-handed 4 inch phones makes me:

 

[CEmajr]

By the end of this year the iPhone 6+ will likely have handily outsold the Note 4. Samsung has enjoyed almost no competition in the extremely large screen market for a few years now and Apple is about to come and eat their lunch. No wonder they're doing so many attack ads all of a sudden. They're scared.

 

[Ayr]

Will take a while, but I think the 6+ phablet will definitely start tempting Android guys over. Maybe it needs more features, but those will come in future iterations.

For people out of touch as to what is considered a phablet in the tech world

A phablet (/ˈfæblɪt/), a portmanteau of the words phone and tablet, is a class of mobile device designed to combine or straddle the functions of a smartphone and tablet. Phablets typically have screens that measure (diagonally) between 5.3 to 6.9 inches (135 to 180 mm), which complement screen-intensive activity such as mobile web browsing and multimedia viewing.

wiki.

 

[AdonisSMU]

By the end of this year the iPhone 6+ will likely have handily outsold the Note 4. Samsung has enjoyed almost no competition in the extremely large screen market for a few years now and Apple is about to come and eat their lunch. No wonder they're doing so many attack ads all of a sudden. They're scared.

Thats because Apple didnt give people a choice in the matter. You only have two options 4.7 and 5.5". They shouldve kept a 4" phone and called it the iPhone 6 air.