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Samsung Widens Gap Over Apple in Worldwide Smartphone Market
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Generally speaking. Yes, for you, me, and everyone else interested in Sales figures between the two companies.
No, I'm not going to "thrust" you, because I "thrust" myself to know what's funny.
It's pretty stupid to claim that Apple copied "Copy and Paste" from Google and Samsung, when Apple had copy & paste implementations 35 years ago.
Love Apple products but worried about the stock. Lately I can see more and more people that use to be iPad users switch to Surface Pro. On my last meeting at university surface outnumbered iPads 3:1. Those people don't care about faction and glamour. They want the job done the most quick and efficient way and apparently surface is a way to go these days. Apple please do something. Don't be blackberry and stay behind. Hybrids and increased functionality is the way to go.
It's the combination that's the killer. If Apple wasn't there, Samsung would have a chance in the high end market. Apple and Huawei/Xaiomi coming from both sides is what's killing Samsung.
That report typically follows this one within a week or two every quarter. Has for years.
You seem to be taking this very personally.
Samsung _loves_ to supply parts to Apple. Being a supplier is what they are good at. Building phones - not unless they have a good example to copy.
I am still trying to decide if this is a joke.
Here in Amsterdam iPhones are so popular that "iPhone" pretty much means "smartphone". I see 15-year-olds, 25-year-old overtly tanned ladies with bare midriffs and VERY long fingernails, businessmen in smart suits, pretty much everyone with iPhones. I'm the sole Sony boy. The only places where I see S6 and S6 Edge is on the ads. I haven't seen an Edge in the wild yet which is kind of irritating because I'm curious what they actually look like. But I only know one person who willingly owns a Samsung and it's a Note. And I love that guy dearly but he doesn't scream "style" and "sophistication".
My point was that the ignorance of the post was railing about Apple making a great profit by selling an inferior product, and the insinuation that they are not innovative.
I have no great problem with your position. While I don't necessarily agree with you it does not come from a place of complete hyperbole, ignorance and hatred, like the post to which I was responding.
This is lame.
The average selling price of iPhones is about $700
http://appleinsider.com/articles/16/01/26/rising-iphone-asp-in-q1-hints-at-healthy-iphone-6s-sales
The average selling price of a Samsung phone is less than $200
http://www.reuters.com/article/samsung-elec-results-q-idUSS6N0V702H20150429
The bulk of the units Samsung sells are $100 phones that are sold in emerging markets like China, Africa, South America, and Eastern Europe.
The average selling price of iPhones is about $700
http://appleinsider.com/articles/16/01/26/rising-iphone-asp-in-q1-hints-at-healthy-iphone-6s-sales
The average selling price of a Samsung phone is less than $200
http://www.reuters.com/article/samsung-elec-results-q-idUSS6N0V702H20150429
The bulk of the units Samsung sells are $100 phones that are sold in emerging markets like China, Africa, South America, and Eastern Europe.
Precisely. I've been a "tech head" for a long time, and the longer it goes, I realize I want tech to simply work and get out of my way. I don't want to have to manage crap all the time. The reason I use Apple hardware is the integration and consistency. Period. Things like iCloud Backup, Time Machine, Keychain, Handoff, and various other seemingly small things make my life easier, and are difficult if not impossible to replicate on other platforms. Microsoft may be getting there but that's an entirely different subject.
I think part of that is just being acclimated to the ecosystem. To someone just starting to use Apple's products, I think there are elements which are easy but also things that can be very confusing. Same with Android. Same with MS. And same with Amazon.
Didn't realise the first iPhone was released that long ago.
yes. Apple's distributors asked them to stop making/providing them with new 6S models for 3 months because they aren't selling. Apple is definitely threatened. And as a consumer, Samsungs Edge and Note lines are far more interesting than Apple's lame designs.
Another stupid post. Carriers are now giving away S models because they can't sell them.
The latest numbers from market research firm Strategy Analytics reveal that Samsung increased its lead over Apple as the world's largest smartphone maker, after shipping 81.3 million smartphones in the fourth quarter of the 2015 calendar year. Apple announced earlier this week that it sold a record 74.8 million iPhones during the same three-month period encompassing the busy holiday shopping season.
Global smartphone shipments grew 12 percent annually from 1.28 billion in 2014 to a record 1.44 billion in 2015, according to the data. Samsung and Apple contributed 317.2 million and 192.7 million smartphone sales respectively to that worldwide total, while Huawei, Lenovo-Motorola, and Xiaomi rounded off the top five smartphone makers. All other vendors collectively shipped 637.5 million smartphones in 2015.
Samsung led the fourth quarter with 20.1 percent market share, a slight increase over its 19.6 percent market share in the year-ago quarter. Conversely, Apple's fourth quarter market share was 18.5 percent, a slight decline from its 19.6 percent share in the fourth quarter of 2014. Huawei, Lenovo-Motorola and Xiaomi had market shares of 8.1 percent, 5 percent and 4.8 percent respectively.
In the year-ago quarter, Apple matched Samsung's 74.5 million smartphones shipped on the strength of the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, but its South Korean rival has since pulled ahead again. The comparison is largely unbalanced, however, as Samsung sells dozens of different smartphone models worldwide, while Apple currently only sells the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, and iPhone 5s.
Apple expects iPhone sales will likely decline in the March quarter, marking the first year-over-year decline since the smartphone was released over eight years ago. The decline will be realized if Apple sells fewer than 61.2 million iPhones this quarter, ending in late March. iPhone growth in the just-announced first fiscal quarter of 2016 was the slowest since the smartphone's introduction in 2007.
Strategy Analytics has also published smartphone data for the Chinese market, where Apple trails closely behind Xiaomi and Huawei.
Article Link: Samsung Widens Gap Over Apple in Worldwide Smartphone Market
Estimates are not equal to published sales figures. So all of this is navel gazing.
Come on. I'm well aware that Apple does a lot of it's own copying, but thats not the point
The idea behind "copy and paste" is ancient in the computing market. There was the ability to copy and paste text back in dos days. The concept behidn it is not novel or new. People were asking fro Copy and Paste because it had been a usable feature in all computing for decades.
The fact that the iPhone released without Copy and Paste, while computing standards, includign Apple's OWN computers, were using it, was a huge oversight
Also, Year-over-Year is narrowed considerably. Quarterly is the only loss, but Apple has shown the ability to sell more consistently.
Oh yeah, and it's a profitable business.
They don't publish such mention because it wouldn't be true. Samsung might make low profits on low priced phones, but they aren't losing money by any means. They're simply making fewer billions than usual.
That's never been true about mostly cheap models. However, yes, now that Apple has phablets, they no longer feel as threatened by Samsung.
Sometime in the not too distant future, things will change again when Samsung Electronics debuts a real folding phone. But not for long, since Samsung Display has said they'll sell such displays to anyone.
Exactly.
Until fairly recently, Samsung's sales were about 1/3 low end, 1/3 mid and 1/3 high end. And for years they sold so many in total, that just the 1/3 high end portion was the equivalent of Apple's total sales counts.
Then Huawei and Xioami started hitting Samsung in China from the low end, and Apple finally wised up and came out with phablets to compete with Samsung on the high end.
Worse, Samsung hugely miscalculated demand for the high end Edge, and lost a ton of sales. (Apple did a similar mistake a few years back with the mix ratio for the iPhone 5S/5C, but was able to correct it more quickly then, than Samsung could come up with more curved screens today.)
Now, squeezed at the top and low ends as you said, most of Samsung's sales are likely mid-level priced phones in the $200-240 price range.
Once again, the title of an article belies its true content. Apple apparently had a stellar 2015 -> significant exceeding 2014 in every metric (earning almost $35 BILLION more by calendar year, and well over $50 billion more by fiscal year, while profits increased by over $10 billion!), and narrowing the gap with Samsung in market share by another 50% (from just under 10% to just over 6% gap). The "gloom and doom" of this article is about nothing but the fact that last XMAS, Apple tied Samsung in units for that season, while in this XMAS, Samsung beat Apple again. But the gap isn't widening, it's dropping.
Well maybe those Feld&Volk models that are covered in gold and diamonds
Difference is tacky v class