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.
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Just wait till the Galaxy 6 comes out.
Wow! What a jump. They must be tired of Samsung by now ... LOL ...
That would be a good deal!
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.
Please see post #8.
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.
Holy Moley!! Those two charts show a classic “reversal of fortune” situation. Apple is FLYING to the sky.
The iPhone is very nice, the second best phone made after the Samsung Galaxy.
No “i” anything. Ever. Again.
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.
I will not soil myself with anything ‘apple’, ever again, since my last purchase of that LC475 Mac, before the Millenium.
Not unless you discount all the reviewers. . . and the sales. . . and the users.
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.
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.
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.
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