Samsung claimed the top share of the global smartphone market in the third quarter with 23.8 percent, compared to Apple's 14.6 percent. (Samsung fans rejoice.) Nokia took third with 14.4 percent of the market. Apple had the lead in the second quarter with 18.5 percent and Samsung was in second with 17.5 percent and of course Nokia was third with 15.2 percent.
Can anyone else see the same pattern I do? Samsung gained 6.3 percent from the second quarter to the third, while Apple and Nokia both lost ground. Best guesses are most buyers waited for the iPhone 4S release in the forth quarter.
Those are still some impressive numbers from Samsung. This time last year, Samsung was in third with only 9.3 percent of the market. That is a 14.5 percent increase in one year. Apple lost 2.8 percent, while Nokia lost the most with 18.3 percent of the global market share. Samsung's rise can be attributed to the 30 million Galaxy S, And Galaxy S II phones sold.
Are you happy for Samsung? Let us know what you think in the comments below.
[Via PCWorld]
Those are shipped numbers not sales. Apple is still winning here. We need to provide a better user experience, for example, try to compare the experience of handling your music with an idevice vs android. Android is way behind and this is true for a number of key apps. Lets get our hopes for ICS.
Yes, I am very happy for Samsung because I now have many more varieties of choice of devices from 2 different great manufacturers from the America and Asia continents.
Well, first of all Samsung never gave official numbers. They came of a 3rd party.
Second, we’re taking about units shipped not sold.
But most important is that Apple made like 5X the revenues that Samsung made.
It all come down to the Benjamin’s. Apple’s clearly winning.
Hey, Microsoft sold 10x more Windows than Apple sold Macs; but Apple made $28 Bilion in revenues vs Microsft’s $17 Billion.
Why aren’t you bragging about that?
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