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iPhone 6 hands Apple record share of Samsung's home market
Reuters ^ | Wed Jan 21, 2015 5:55am EST | By Se Young Lee

Posted on 01/21/2015 4:48:37 PM PST by Swordmaker

SEOUL, Jan 21 (Reuters) - Apple Inc is chipping away at Samsung Electronics Co Ltd's dominant position in its home turf of South Korea - thanks to its new iPhone 6 series.

Apple captured a record 33 percent market share in South Korea in November, the highest ever for a foreign brand, according to a monthly report released by Hong Kong-based market research company Counterpoint on Wednesday. In contrast, Samsung's share slipped to 46 percent after hovering around 60 percent for five months.

Apple's gains in South Korea are telling, as November was the first full month that the larger-screen iPhone 6 and 6 Plus were sold in the country. The sales likely came at the expense of Samsung's flagship Galaxy Note 4 phablet launched in late September.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: apple; cellphones; iphone; iphone6; samsung
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1 posted on 01/21/2015 4:48:37 PM PST by Swordmaker
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To: ~Kim4VRWC's~; 1234; Abundy; Action-America; acoulterfan; AFreeBird; Airwinger; Aliska; altair; ...
Apple iPhones garner 33% market share in South Korea. . . Samsung's home market — PING!


Apple iPhone market gaining market share Ping!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

3 posted on 01/21/2015 4:51:14 PM PST by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
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To: Swordmaker

Just wait till the Galaxy 6 comes out.


4 posted on 01/21/2015 4:56:06 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: Swordmaker

Wow! What a jump. They must be tired of Samsung by now ... LOL ...


5 posted on 01/21/2015 5:00:51 PM PST by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: Star Traveler
I got my first smart phone. I wanted an android but the face time option in apple 6 sold me with so many family members including the wife having it.
I look forward to AT&T doing what T-Mobil did in enabling wifi calling so if I go overseas I can bypass the networks to call over the Internet.
6 posted on 01/21/2015 5:04:18 PM PST by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: A CA Guy

That would be a good deal!


7 posted on 01/21/2015 5:07:24 PM PST by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: A CA Guy

You can just buy and app and do it now. We used one on IPhones between here and South America on multiple occasions with no issues. Check out “Viber” for IPhone or IPad.


8 posted on 01/21/2015 5:40:20 PM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Star Traveler

Please see post #8.


9 posted on 01/21/2015 5:40:42 PM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Swordmaker

Traded in my Galaxy S3 for a 6 plus last week. I love it. I would have never bought an I phone with the itty bitty screen that was too small for me to read.


10 posted on 01/21/2015 5:44:14 PM PST by ziravan (Choose Sides.)
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To: Swordmaker

Holy Moley!! Those two charts show a classic “reversal of fortune” situation. Apple is FLYING to the sky.


11 posted on 01/21/2015 5:45:49 PM PST by House Atreides (CRUZ or lose!)
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To: Swordmaker

The iPhone is very nice, the second best phone made after the Samsung Galaxy.


13 posted on 01/21/2015 6:11:31 PM PST by Dalberg-Acton
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To: Swordmaker

No “i” anything. Ever. Again.


14 posted on 01/21/2015 6:15:19 PM PST by vpintheak (Keep calm and Rain Steel!)
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The watch, the pay with your phone, and the larger screen.

Uh, no. An Apple engineer was interviewed about upcoming devices. . . and he mentioned what a hypothetical Apple watch could possibly do. . . and Samsung got busy to try and get one out first. Pay on your phone? The Android Google Wallet is nothing like Apple Pay. . . nothing at all. Larger screen? i grant you that, but it is not "swiped." if you want to talk about swiped, who owes who 1billion dollars. It's not Apple owing Samsung. It is Samsung owing Apple. There is no doubt about what made a sea change in phone design.


15 posted on 01/21/2015 6:22:39 PM PST by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
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I will not soil myself with anything ‘apple’, ever again, since my last purchase of that LC475 Mac, before the Millenium.


16 posted on 01/21/2015 6:26:43 PM PST by Terry L Smith
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The iPhone is very nice, the second best phone made after the Samsung Galaxy.

Not unless you discount all the reviewers. . . and the sales. . . and the users.

17 posted on 01/21/2015 6:28:54 PM PST by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
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To: Terry L Smith
I will not soil myself with anything ‘apple’, ever again, since my last purchase of that LC475 Mac, before the Millennium.

Well, Gee, Terry. Those were nice little consumer entry Macintosh which shipped with Mac OS 7.1. . . and discontinued 21 years ago. . . before Microsoft even thought of Windows 95 and was shipping crappy MS-DOS. Amazing you hold grudges from memories of a very nice Mac.

18 posted on 01/21/2015 6:40:39 PM PST by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
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I was looking at a Windows thread earlier, and anti-Apple crazies were trying to bait responses from Apple fans. On a Windows 10 thread! Weird. There were no remarks that I could see from Apple or Linux people. It’s just crazy how these loons flock to an Apple thread to knock Apple. And even do it on a Windows thread. Weird and crazy. If they don’t want to buy Apple, you’d think they’d ignore the Apple threads and focus on Windoze.


19 posted on 01/21/2015 7:21:22 PM PST by roadcat
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Dear Swordmaker,

The machine itself was the reason I purchased it. I had been married to a non-technically minded wife, whereas I had been involved with computers from the days of the Univac 1050-II data processing equipment.

The ‘rub’ was that, I was a subscriber to AOL, and AOL kept increasing it’s version numbers, and ‘size needed’ requirements, exponentially to where I had to keep taking the processor to the get-on-the rug-and-face-North Apple techni-priests for greater RAM installations. No matter how much electronic catechism I evoked, I was just another schlump to a 20-ish fuzz-moustached Apple employee, beholden to them for the survival of the machine, while under purchased extended warranty.

I have worked with Fortran77, hexidecimal machine code, assembly language, built my own computer, HP-1B Basic, Dos 5, Dos 6, Windows 3.1, before I moved and purchased the brand new LC475 from an office store, in 1994. I don’t recall the ‘OS’ number. I have since owned a Win98Se laptop, (which with me survived Hurricane Katrina), a WinXP laptop, and now a Win7 machine.


20 posted on 01/21/2015 7:41:43 PM PST by Terry L Smith
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