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To: morphing libertarian
anyone know samsung’s share of the phone market?

IDC: Smartphone Vendor Market Share Chart

Samsung is #1 as of 2017Q1. In 2016Q4, they briefly were second to Apple, due to that battery problem.

Period Samsung Apple Huawei OPPO vivo Others
2016Q1 23.8% 15.4% 8.4% 5.9% 4.4% 42.1%
2016Q2 22.7% 11.7% 9.3% 6.6% 4.8% 45.0%
2016Q3 20.9% 12.5% 9.3% 7.1% 5.9% 44.3%
2016Q4 18.0% 18.2% 10.5% 7.3% 5.7% 40.2%
2017Q1 23.3% 14.7% 10.0% 7.5% 5.5% 39.0%

Source: IDC, May 2017

38 posted on 10/10/2017 9:08:05 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: cynwoody

thanx


39 posted on 10/10/2017 9:09:07 PM PDT by morphing libertarian (Imprison Obama, Clintons, Holder, lynch now.)
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To: cynwoody
Samsung is #1 as of 2017Q1. In 2016Q4, they briefly were second to Apple, due to that battery problem.

The problem with that IDC chart and any other chart prepared by Garmin, is they use "units shipped" of phones, all mobile phones, regardless of capabilities, and lump them under the category of "smartphone" when they are not.

Samsung and the other Android makers lump all the Android phones together, regardless of whether than are smartphones, feature phones, or just plain dumb phones in their shipped phones reported. Such aggregation of their models they ship does not represent the true comparison of the "smartphones" market that Apple competes in. . . because many of those are simply NOT smartphones. Many of them are just mere phones. . . with some limited capabilities some with more.

They are not handheld computers with a phone app that is a smartphone. They are phones first with some apps added on. There is a BIG DIFFERENCE.

47 posted on 10/10/2017 9:49:43 PM PDT by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you racist, bigot!)
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