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You and Mr. Dilger made the same mistake. This is about Q2. Your lovingly crafted, long-winded post was for Q1.
Sorry!
The data is the data. The point was that the error is about the differences about smartphone definitions.
1st calendar quarters sales of smartphones were what they were. Samsung cannot have suddenly had "smartphone" sales jump from what they claimed in the first three months of 2016 to the huge numbers in the second quarter of 2016 unless Samsung RECLASSIFIED their FEATURE PHONES to be Smartphones.
My point in posting this article is to point out the data from the first calendar quarter (Apple's 2nd FISCAL quarter) where Samsung's own numbers are so much smaller than what is claimed in the second calendar quarter.
Your confusion comes from the fact that Apple's FIRST FISCAL QUARTER runs from the last Saturday of September at 5PM until the last Saturday of December at 5PM. . . it is not a calendar quarter. in fact, Apple's Fiscal quarters don't quite coincide at all with any calendar quarter. The 1st Calendar quarter is actually close to Apple's 2nd Fiscal Quarter, the 2nd Calendar Quarter is close to Apple's 3rd Fiscal Quarter, and so on. You are not understanding that disconnect of calendar and fiscal quarters.