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To: Swordmaker
Wow, that's some pretty incredible news in there for Windows Phone - a couple losses, but some huge gains. Never thought it'd top 10% in any market.

And Samsung, gosh, didn't realize that they'd grown to 34% of the market share (if the numbers are accurate for iOS having a 30% share and 64% between the two companies) which I guess makes them the biggest in the US now of any single brand.

I'm more than a bit surprised about the market share loss in the US for Apple; I had assumed that catching up with mobile payment options as well as the Apple Watch would have at the very least maintained their market share - I wonder how much of this is being affected by T-Mobile dropping subsidized phones?

7 posted on 09/02/2015 1:31:46 PM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: kingu
And Samsung, gosh, didn't realize that they'd grown to 34% of the market share (if the numbers are accurate for iOS having a 30% share and 64% between the two companies) which I guess makes them the biggest in the US now of any single brand.

Samsung has been the number one brand for some time. . . dropped to number two to Apple in the fourth quarter of 2014 for one quarter. However, Apple has 92% of all phone profits. Samsung has 14% of the profits. You might ask "How can that be?" since it totals 106%! It's even stranger because Xiaomi has 1% of the profits and LG has another 1%, bringing the total of all cellular phone profits to 108%! The reason is that ALL of the other 246 or so cellular phone makers have posted LOSSES, which when accumulated total the missing 8% of the cellular phone profit totals, bringing the it back down to 100%.

13 posted on 09/02/2015 1:53:59 PM PDT by Swordmaker ( This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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