galaxy s2 and the other cheap galaxy s models
big market in the USA for people who want something free or $50 on contract
outside the USA these sell for $300 and that's the sweet spot in pricing for most of the world
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Apple's Share of Smartphone Market Slips as Smartphones Outsell Feature Phones for First Time
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galaxy s2 and the other cheap galaxy s models
big market in the USA for people who want something free or $50 on contract
outside the USA these sell for $300 and that's the sweet spot in pricing for most of the world
iPhone 4 and 4S are actually $450 and $550... not cheap by any means.
Now consider an Android phone from Micromax that sells for about $80 in India...
Do you really think those models outsell the GS3??
Seems weird to me.....The fact that this is a "shipment" table and they're using Apple's numbers for iPhone SALES is also a little bit fishy.
Just wish we could know what actually makes up those numbers. At least with Apple's we know that 37.4 million is about 19 million iP5s and the rest iPhone 4S and 4.
The "smartphone market" is getting harder and harder to judge because, pretty soon, ALL phones will be technically smartphones. Then, when a smartphone is bought by someone who just wants a phone, that still counts as a smartphone but the "smart" bits may as well not be there if they aren't used. It's like how a packed in game with a new console is counted as the number 1 best seller... of course it is! Doesn't mean anything though.
There are loads of smartphones being bought by people as phones and not used in any way as "smart" devices and, to top it off, the "smartphone" term is now applied to devices that aren't really comparable. To count the Nokia Asha phones alongside Nexus 4s and iPhone 5s is mad - they're "smart" by the barest of margins.
There are loads of smartphones being bought by people as phones and not used in any way as "smart" devices and, to top it off, the "smartphone" term is now applied to devices that aren't really comparable. To count the Nokia Asha phones alongside Nexus 4s and iPhone 5s is mad - they're "smart" by the barest of margins.
outside the USA yes. $650 plus VAT is too much for a phone
in the USA the people with no smartphones will go for the cheapo phones more than the expensive ones.
Incomparable, Samsung have a zillion cheap phones and the contracts are always cheaper for android, along with phones being free for a vast majority of them....
Don't read too much in to this folks, it is all smoke and mirrors.
Don't read too much in to this folks, it is all smoke and mirrors.
The other 50M came from the butt of the IDC analyst.
Remember IDC just predicted Mac sales fell by 7% when in fact they fell by 1.3%. They were off by a factor of 5 in estimating the decline of Mac sales. And IDC has Apple's actual numbers with which to ground their estimates every quarter. IDC has not had Samsung actuals for 3 years or more.
Their report is not worth the paper it is printed on (even if it was printed on used toilet paper).
Lucky for them that Samsung never reports actuals so IDC is never proven wrong by Samsung.
There are lots of cheap smartphones nowadays.
There are people buying for $600, for $500, $400, $300, $200, $150, $100, $80, $50, $20. The proportion of people buying at each price stays the same. What changes is that the same people buy smartphones now, not because they want a smartphone, but because today, the $200 or $150 or $100 phone is a smartphone, and next week the $80 phone will be one.
And because of that, Apple's market share in the artificial "smartphone" market shrinks, because even though Apple doesn't care that you don't buy an iPhone if you only had $100 to spend in the first place, all the $100 smartphones are reducing Apple's market share. Apple doesn't care.
There is no growth at the bottom. Every time some vendor sells a $100 smartphone, they have lost a buyer for a $100 feature phone. The only slightly meaningful number is the total phone market. A more meaningful number would be to count sales in dollars, not sales in units. If A sells a million phones for $600 each, and B sells six million phones for $100 each, they make the same revenue, yet one has six times more "market share".
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Poor Nokia...
i know but they chose to do only windows phones. Things could have been different if they did a good android phone too.
the only thing these number show is that Apple is too slow at getting their phone on the largest provider in China. ZTE and the other company I can't even spell Huawai are exploding and I am certain that is strictly due to an explosion in China that Apple is getting close to missing as those phones are likely running android. Samsungs numbers are meaningless because they sell smartphones at $99 outright where they make almost nothing, their numbers are impressive but for them its profit share that is more of a concern. The real important numbers for Apple imo are the ZTE and Huawai explosion and Apples stagnation
The screens on iPhones are far more accurate and of a much higher quality than Samsung displays
Battery life preforms much better on the iPhone than on the S3.
Screen on iPhone is fine. seems like this study sould be broken up into 'smart phone' and 'feature phones'
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Is Nokia trying to go out of business ? wth...
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Why?
the phone is just as good with window OS. Seems like issue is poor marketing.
If they keep on "not caring" they actually WILL be in trouble.
Their margins are shrinking quickly and can't be offset by growth. That means their profits will shrink quite drastically. Correction. Not "will shrink". It has already begun.
Samsung is playing both the high-end and the high-volume game quite successfully. They just increased their profit by 42% while Apple's profit shrank by 18%.
I simply don't understand how they can keep their head in the sand for so long. They did it right with the iPod and the iPad Mini. Why are they clinging to an obviously failing strategy with the iPhone? It's more than obvious that people want larger screens and that the high-end market is saturated.
Tim Cook keeps saying that if they don't cannibalize their own products, someone else will, and that's exactly what's happing here. 2013 will be a terrible year for Apple because they should have seen this coming. They should have released a cheaper iPhone at least one year ago along with an additional iPhone 5 model with a substantially larger screen. They didn't and whatever they do now, it will be very late.
Samsung amoled screens are among the worst in the business. Awful color accuracy. Very low brightness. Ever see a Samsung screen that wasn't greenish tinted? Me either. See displaymate.com analysis. iPhone 5 has one of the most accurate screens in mobile phones.
You can ignore the facts and live in your own bubble as long as you want. Won't change reality.
Should, I completely agree, but don't! People, I think, want excitement, features, customization. That just isn't how iOs is (for the moment), that's how Android is.