Samsung regains smartphone sales crown from Apple

[Anonymous]

Below is an article that I've taken from CNET, just to make our Android army proud!

Any thoughts?

Samsung Electronics has recaptured its title as the world's top smartphone maker, according to new research released Tuesday.

The South Korean electronics giant shipped 83.2 million smartphones worldwide during the first quarter of 2015, capturing 24 percent of the smartphone market, according to market researcher Strategy Analytics. While that's a decrease from its 31 percent marketshare a year ago, it still bests the 17.7 percent marketshare Apple recorded with 61.2 million units shipped during the quarter. The iPhone maker's market share expanded on the 15.3 percent it commanded a year ago but shrank from the 19.6 percent it captured in the fourth quarter of 2014, according to Strategy Analytics.

Samsung continued to face challenges in Asia and elsewhere, but its global performance has stabilized sufficiently well this quarter to overtake Apple and recapture first position as the world's largest smartphone vendor by volume," Neil Mawston, executive director at Strategy Analytics, said in a statement.

The results reverse the sales positions that the world's largest smartphone makers landed in last quarter. According to Gartner research published last month, the iPhone 6's popularity helped Apple pass Samsung to become the world's biggest smartphone maker in the fourth quarter

Apple sold 74.8 million iPhones during the fourth quarter of 2014 to achieve its best quarter ever and give it a 20.4 percent share of worldwide smartphone sales, Gartner reported. Over the same period, Samsung's share of the smartphone market, on sales of 73 million units, plummeted to 19.9 percent from 29.5 percent.

Samsung's return to the smartphone throne in the first quarter came despite its IT and mobile business recording a 57 percent year-over-year drop in operating profits during its first quarter. Samsung doesn't disclose its smartphone sales figures, but analysts had estimated Samsung shipped 82 million smartphones for the period, down from the 89 million a year earlier, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Strategy Analytics' results do not include sales of the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge, which hit the market earlier this month. Samsung has predicted record sales for Galaxy S6 devices and says it's selling the phones faster than it came make them.

Strategy Analytics' research showed that the smartphone game is still solidly a two-horse race. The Lenovo-Motorola tieup, which was finalized in October, registered a distant third with a 5.4 percent share of the market on shipments of 18.8 million units. Close behind Lenovo was Huawei, with 5 percent market share on 17.3 million units shipped.

[Anonymous]

Stop picking on us 

But seriously, I don't mind admitting that I've been getting bored of Apple products just lately. That was until I saw the price of Samsung's latest flagship model. I'm sure it's a fantastic piece of kit, but £750 is a lot of money to pay for a phone.

[MI5]

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@Anonymous wrote:

Stop picking on us 

But seriously, I don't mind admitting that I've been getting bored of Apple products just lately. That was until I saw the price of Samsung's latest flagship model. I'm sure it's a fantastic piece of kit, but £750 is a lot of money to pay for a phone.

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You seen the price of an iP6 ? 

[Cleoriff]

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@MI5 wrote:

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@Anonymous wrote:

Stop picking on us 

But seriously, I don't mind admitting that I've been getting bored of Apple products just lately. That was until I saw the price of Samsung's latest flagship model. I'm sure it's a fantastic piece of kit, but £750 is a lot of money to pay for a phone.

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You seen the price of an iP6 ? 

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What?? That inferior phone??

[anticpated]

To a point I agree, it is expensive for a flagship telephone especially now that people won't be able to customise their handset as much as they used to be able too without consequences. This is why I like Google telephones as they are not as expensive as rivals and give good bang for the buck.

LG are dragging their heels a bit with the LG G2 update...intentional...yes I think so. Although you can't bully people into purchasing the newest thing by depriving them the latest software.

[anticpated]

The reason "you" (iPhone users) feel like a minority group is because you either trying to blend in with the cool kids or you are an individual. I know that sounds ironic and to a point facetious. 

I couldn't be bothered getting used to the Windows Phone format either; Windows 8 on the PC is bad enough.

The whole point is, nobody had a gun at our heads when we signed our contracts (providing it's not one of those Sicilian agreements...).

[Cleoriff]

Completely random here @anticpated.....love the new signature...:smileywink:

[Anonymous]

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@anticpated wrote:

The reason "you" (iPhone users) feel like a minority group is because you either trying to blend in with the cool kids or you are an individual. I know that sounds ironic and to a point facetious. 

I couldn't be bothered getting used to the Windows Phone format either; Windows 8 on the PC is bad enough.

The whole point is, nobody had a gun at our heads when we signed our contracts (providing it's not one of those Sicilian agreements...).

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I actually like some of the Lumias, they seem to offer good build quality, and are I believe very good camera phones. But they're still lacking some of the more popular Apps, which is never going to be a problem with Apple. But who knows, maybe when Windows 10 is out, they may finally emerge as a real alternative alongside iOS and Android. And then there's Ubuntu, although that still seems very much a work in progress.

[anticpated]

What it comes down to is, where there is money to be made then closed source is always going to win.