According to Gartner’s numbers, Apple and Samsung were the two biggest winners by a mile in the June quarter. Apple sold an estimated 28.94 million iPhones compared to 19.63 million in the same quarter last year, while Samsung’s end-user sales climbed to 90.43 million mobile phones from 69.83 million in the second quarter of 2011.
Not for long ? Samsung just sold 10 million Galaxy S3, in just 2 months (5 months for the S2, 7 for the S1), and that's just ONE smartphone, they still have all their other Galaxys, especially the Galaxy Note 2 (the first one sold 10 million).
Each of them just outsold all the Lumias COMBINED
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Fresh on the heels of the much-anticipated Lumia 920 announcement, some new figures have come to light regarding its predecessors' success. According to the Finnish phone-maker, a total of 7-million Windows Phone / Lumia devices have shipped to date. The firm was also keen to point out that this number comes from 54 markets in total -- some 130 different operators. While this might seem modest, especially with only 600,000 of those sales being in the US, 4-million of those Lumia devices were sold in Q2, roughly double that of the preceding two quarters, so things are on the up. Now it just remains to see what impact any new Windows Phone 8 phones will have.
The Lumia 920 is an amazing phone, I agree, but a good phone is not enough, they won't snatch Sammy's wig without the right marketing (just look at HTC, they have phones as good as the best Galaxys, but are still flopping)
Not for long ? Samsung just sold 10 million Galaxy S3, in just 2 months (5 months for the S2, 7 for the S1), and that's just ONE smartphone, they still have all their other Galaxys, especially the Galaxy Note 2 (the first one sold 10 million).
The Lumia 920 is an amazing phone, I agree, but a good phone is not enough, they won't snatch Sammy's wig without the right marketing (just look at HTC, they have phones as good as the best Galaxys, but are still flopping)
You still do too much. The Lumia 920 looks waaaay better than the SGSIII. And I wouldn't really say Samsung has "great" marketing either but okay.
You still do too much. The Lumia 920 looks waaaay better than the SGSIII. And I wouldn't really say Samsung has "great" marketing either but okay.
And I totally agree.
But the fact that they can sell millions and millions of ONE android phone, and the other (LG, HTC) who makes also amazing phones (the HTC one X looks even better than the S3") can't, it's all thanks to the amazing marketing (Samsung was the official sponsor of the Olympic Games, the S3 was everywhere, that's just one example of their promo).
Oh and by the way, I was wrong, The Samsung Galaxy S3 is at 20 millions now.
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The phone that a passel of worldwide lawsuits couldn't hold back, Samsung's Galaxy S III, is the company's most successful yet, as Samsung announced tonight that it's delivered more than 20 million units in 100 days. That figure puts it at three times the sales rate of the Galaxy S II when it broke 20 million in February, ten months after launch and more than six times the original Galaxy S, which took 17 months. In a rare occasion, Samsung has supplied regional sales figures -- revealing six million devices for Europe, 4.5 million in Asia, 4 million in North America and 2.5 million in Korea. According to Samsung's gleeful press release it's moving 200,000 units a day -- any predictions for where that pace (or sales for its larger cousin, the Galaxy Note II which has its own hard act to follow) will go from here?
Paradox much? They're defeated in terms of worldwide numbers and yet you've mentioned how they're undefeated. Care to explain what you meant by that?
Maybe he's referring to the fact that this is misleading because it's comparing Apple's exclusively smartphone sales to overall mobile phone sales. Or maybe he's referring to the fact that Apple commands ~90% of all smartphone PROFITS in the world.
Paradox much? They're defeated in terms of worldwide numbers and yet you've mentioned how they're undefeated. Care to explain what you meant by that?
The iPhone is the best-selling phone. Obviously Apple's numbers aren't going to be as large as Samsung or Nokia's because they don't target the low end of the market. Apple's mobile division is the most profitable in the world.
And I totally agree.
But the fact that they can sell millions and millions of ONE android phone, and the other (LG, HTC) who makes also amazing phones (the HTC one X looks even better than the S3") can't, it's all thanks to the amazing marketing (Samsung was the official sponsor of the Olympic Games, the S3 was everywhere, that's just one example of their promo).
Oh and by the way, I was wrong, The Samsung Galaxy S3 is at 20 millions now.
The iPhone is the best-selling phone. Obviously Apple's numbers aren't going to be as large as Samsung or Nokia's because they don't target the low end of the market. Apple's mobile division is the most profitable in the world.
Yup.
In the first calendar quarter of 2012, Apple’s revenue of $39.2 billion more than doubled Microsoft’s $17.41 billion in sales. The far more impressive stat, as the site noted, is that Apple took in $22.7 billion during the March quarter just from iPhone sales — meaning a single Apple product was responsible for 30% more revenue than Microsoft’s entire business.
