I have no love for Samsung, but this report is misleading. Those preorder totals include both the 4.7 and 5.5 inch iPhones. A more accurate comparison would be total iPhone 6+ preorders vs Note 4 preorders.
We congratulate you on your deep sense of honesty. Your job application at Samsung failed.
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Another post where you are showing your knowledge on the subject...why don't you look at Apple's, their closest competitor, numbers during the same period.
http://www.idc.com/prodserv/smartphone-market-share.jsp
I'm sure you will come back with something even less informed in your next post.
Since you are so well informed, you can probably show us a chart of the
phone market share, not the smartphone market share, which is much more informative because it isn't skewed by all the cheap phones that are now classified as smartphones, in a market where Apple doesn't even try to compete. And maybe you can find a chart that includes the third quarter and doesn't stop just before Apple introduces its most successful phone ever.
You might add a chart of the
revenue share, where a $600 phone counts the same as six $100 phones. Or a chart of
profit share. Which is what really counts.
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Doesn't WebKit predate Safari? As I recall, when Apple revealed Safari they said that they were utilizing an open source engine that had existed for a few years, and everyone assumed that they meant Gecko (Firefox's engine) at first.
There was an open source library which Apple took, improved, and turned into Webkit. Google has recently thrown its toys out of the pram and created a fork of Webkit.
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Still with that wrong claim that Google sells their data?
At least, if you don't like a company, post right claims, not the same wrong ******** wvery time
OK. We'll admit it. When companies pay Google for our data, Google doesn't actually sell the data, it rents them out so they can get money from our data again and again.
Happy now?
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That's interesting that it was an artificial cap, not an "organic" one. Which seems a little odd, since it just makes the numbers look bad for them, even if it works out the same in the end once the device is actually on sale. Does Samsung announce per-device sales numbers ever? Maybe they set the bar low to avoid tipping their hand what demand really was, or because they were afraid it would be very low.
Even so, I wonder if they sold out of those preorders within 10 minutes...
Bizarre. Apple builds millions and millions of phones and still can't keep up with demand, and there's always someone claiming that they are doing this to create some artificial scarcity. And here is Samsung, having just 30,000 phones for their home country.