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Apple edges out Samsung

Cleoriff — Wed, 04 Mar 2015 08:18:36 GMT

According to latest news published in Reuters....

Apple edges out Samsung in global smartphone sales

Apple's smartphones sales jumped about 49 percent in the fourth quarter, according to Gartner. In contrast, Samsung, the market dominator since 2011, recorded a nearly 12 percent fall.

Besides losing market share to the costlier iPhones, the Korean company has been battling low-cost Chinese vendors such as Xiaomi and Huawei.

Let's see what happens when the S6 and S6 edge releases in the middle of April?

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/03/03/uk-apple-iphone-sales-idUKKBN0LZ1WO20150303

Re: Apple edges out Samsung

MI5 — Wed, 04 Mar 2015 08:25:09 GMT

Pricing strategy for the S6 will be crucial.
If they get that correct it will wipe out half of the iPhone sales.

Re: Apple edges out Samsung

Cleoriff — Wed, 04 Mar 2015 08:30:03 GMT

@MI5 wrote:
Pricing strategy for the S6 will be crucial.
If they get that correct it will wipe out half of the iPhone sales.

I actually wondered how true these figures could be Rich? We know Samsung releases its flagship phones in April...and Apple 6 months later in September. There would be peaks and troughs in sales figures then.

Having said that...this info was compiled in December...so probably true enough....so far?

Re: Apple edges out Samsung

MI5 — Wed, 04 Mar 2015 08:32:48 GMT

Yeah, in December riding the peak of the wave for new iPhone release sales

Re: Apple edges out Samsung

Bambino — Wed, 04 Mar 2015 08:34:49 GMT

@Cleoriff your first post said 'Apple's smartphones sales jumped about 49 percent in the fourth quarter'. That's when the iPhone 6 and 6+ were released. Makes absolute sense that their sales would jump like that. Samsung's sales will jump in April, if, as @MI5 says, they get the pricing right. Swings and roundabouts. Nothing more.

Re: Apple edges out Samsung

Cleoriff — Wed, 04 Mar 2015 08:38:27 GMT

@Bambino wrote:
@Cleoriff your first post said 'Apple's smartphones sales jumped about 49 percent in the fourth quarter'. That's when the iPhone 6 and 6+ were released. Makes absolute sense that their sales would jump like that. Samsung's sales will jump in April, if, as @MI5 says, they get the pricing right. Swings and roundabouts. Nothing more.

Looks as if the reporter may have an Apple bias. Lets hope they come back and report on the figures this June/July...:smileywink:

Re: Apple edges out Samsung

Bambino — Wed, 04 Mar 2015 08:43:00 GMT

They are correct about Xiaomi and Huawei hurting Samsung more than Apple, though. Apple only makes two phones and doesn't deal with the lower end of the market.

Re: Apple edges out Samsung

viridis — Wed, 04 Mar 2015 10:52:20 GMT

Amazing how these stories come out just prior to a galaxy release.

Re: Apple edges out Samsung

jonsie — Wed, 04 Mar 2015 11:02:20 GMT

I doubt the people at Samsung are very worried.

Re: Apple edges out Samsung

Anonymous — Wed, 04 Mar 2015 12:47:43 GMT

@jonsie wrote:
I doubt the people at Samsung are very worried.

I doubt it too. If it's just a measure of units sold, does it make any sense to compare between manufacturers at all?

Re: Apple edges out Samsung

Cleoriff — Wed, 04 Mar 2015 13:26:45 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
@jonsie wrote:
I doubt the people at Samsung are very worried.
I doubt it too. If it's just a measure of units sold, does it make any sense to compare between manufacturers at all?

I think Reuters were probably more interested in telling us about Apple's profit ie

The company reported a profit of $18 billion for the period, the biggest ever reported by a public company, according to S&P analyst Howard Silverblatt.

Either way, as this figures were released for analyis in December, it's obvious that Apple would show up better as the iPhones went on the market in September...