Based those projections, it looks like Apple is just a notch ahead of Samsung. 
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iPhone X Should Push Apple Ahead of Samsung as World's Largest Smartphone Maker
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That’s why the phone is completely sold out, because people are waiting to buy ... the stuff some people make up for attention.
Its amazing to me that so many Apple fans seem to celebrate any news that shows a competitor in a negative light. Are you really that insecure as a person that you need to have constant validation of your smartphone choice?
The absolute best thing for Apple users is for Samsung to be successful in flagship smartphones. There is no other competitor that is positioned as well to challenge Apple on the full user experience. Google could, but their market share is trivial for now. If Samsung exited smartphones (which seems unlikely given they were selling them for years before Apple jumped in... back into the 90s, and they sold 80M last quarter), it would hurt Apple users because Apple needs strong competitors to keep pushing them to innovate in ways that are meaningful to users.
Some of you deserve an Apple with no competition. You really do. You could talk about how much more profitable Apple has become, and see innovation slow even more. The X is a great phone, but most of its greatness is that the iPhone had become pretty dated vs. the competition and Apple is catching up in a lot of ways.
The absolute best thing for Apple users is for Samsung to be successful in flagship smartphones. There is no other competitor that is positioned as well to challenge Apple on the full user experience. Google could, but their market share is trivial for now. If Samsung exited smartphones (which seems unlikely given they were selling them for years before Apple jumped in... back into the 90s, and they sold 80M last quarter), it would hurt Apple users because Apple needs strong competitors to keep pushing them to innovate in ways that are meaningful to users.
Some of you deserve an Apple with no competition. You really do. You could talk about how much more profitable Apple has become, and see innovation slow even more. The X is a great phone, but most of its greatness is that the iPhone had become pretty dated vs. the competition and Apple is catching up in a lot of ways.
And guess which is the most important part of IphoneX? And what sells the iphoneX. Definitely not the ram, not the NAND.
No surprise. I have talked to many people either returning or selling theirs. Its because other countries don't have it. Many rich people from other countries will buy them on ebay or craigslist. I have talked to many people and only one person owns one. Many of them bought it to sell. And some even returned it. This is like Nintendo Switch.
Yup the chins are very dated. So are thier designs.
Completely dated
LOL... well I'll take a symmetrical chin over a uni-brow with ears.
Its funny how you guys are all about dated looks now a few days after Apple has updated their design with one of a half dozen models, for the first time in years. How "dated" did Apple let their line get before they updated. In another 4 years when you still have the same X design, how far will the rest progress their designs.
This is also silly, because as previously said its completely subjective. I personally prefer the Note 8 design ... the whole thing. I specifically chose it because I disliked the X entirely, and the 8 is very dated. Kind of ironic. Most people are going to put all these very fragile phones in cases anyway, so I don't really care much what the back of my phone looks like. My 6S+ was in a case very similar to my Note 8.
If people are buying them to sell them, how is that not the same as a sale to the original owner? Someone wants it and is buying in a way they're able to.
Funny, I don't care so much about dated looks. But that Note 8 has a comparatively dated processor for sure. I'm not waiting 4 minutes to export a video when I can wait 1.
Lol, well I think he was counting a couple of beans when Apple didn’t include a fast charger in with the X.
But at least the lightning headphones are in the box. I was pretty ticked off when all us Pixel 2 purchasers got was a usb-c dongle! Now that’s counting beans!
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Huh?
Samsung mocks Apple. Apple never mocked Samsung. Big difference.
I think it’s because Samsung knows Apple’s flagship far outsells Samsung’s flagship. They’re insecure and feel inferior, so they lash out, but only succeed in drawing customers’ attention to the best selling phones—Apple’s.
it's rather funny what people call "dated" i.e. outdated when it was fine 2 years ago.
Not sure how you're turning "Apple might outsell Samsung this quarter, wow, nice job Apple" into "Samsung is doomed and is going out of business! Lulz!". I think the commenters on this site, appreciating Apple's products and the iPhone X, are pleased it's successful because they want continued great products from Apple. I don't think anyone thinks or is saying Samsung is in imminent danger. Also, Samsung's current ads that portray Apple device owners as stupid aren't exactly going to win them sympathy if they miss sales numbers.
Apple is catching up to the competition, and the competition is catching up to Apple. It's been that way for 10 years (in smartphones). Not new info. Apple can't put in every possible new feature every year and competitors can't put in every feature Apple has every year.
The A11 processor, the most advanced mobile processor on the planet. By a mile.
Or the fact the display is calibrated and supported by an OS with color management, making it even better than the same screen in a Samsung Phone.
This is especially significant since TrendForce is only counting the number of phones sold worldwide, not whether those phones were high-end or low-end. All of Apple’s
iPhones except for the SE are high-end (and high profit). Samsung’s worldwide phones sold are low-end (about 90% of the volume), with very few of them being high-end phones.
Oh my. If you find Sammy's chins outdated, I'd hate to know what you think of Apple's chins on the iPhone 8.
I hear what you’re saying, and I think part of it has to do with how you use the phone. If you watch a lot of 16:9 video, there’s quite a difference between the pillar boxed dimensions on the X vs. the entire display of the Plus. Similarly, if you look at the safe zone for the X vs. the Plus.I guess that depends upon how you define "bigger." The iPhone X screen has a significantly higher resolution than the 8+ screen, as well as a larger overall dimension, even taking into account the camera bump and the rounded corners... but it's also fractionally narrower than the 8+ in physical dimensions.
I'm not saying I disagree with the overall sentiment necessarily; I do think that the Plus will continue to be a strong seller. I just think that the notion that the Plus series has the biggest screen is probably more about impression than reality.
If the rumored 2018 X Plus is real, it should offer at least as wide of display as the current Plus, along with all the additional height. The physical size of that phone would not interest me, because even the current Plus models are too big for me. But those who want big screens will love it!
One is specifically targeting one company (Samsung specifically targeting Apple), the other is a very broad target of a whole platform (Apple targeting the entire PC platform and not any one specific company)
There’s a difference.
You bought a Note 8? I’m curious, are you happy having to wait until sometime in 2018 to get Oreo? Or that Android P will be the last update you ever get? For a phone that’s close to $1,000 US? It amazes me people will put up with paying flagship prices for a device with a 2 year lifespan and inferior support.