Oh my! That’s a huge number.
By the way, I just saw this today ...
Analysts say Apple has beaten Samsung to become world’s largest smartphone vendor
http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/29/7937177/apple-beats-samsung-smartphone-share
After recording the biggest quarterly profit by any company ever, Apple might have earned itself another accolade: world’s largest smartphone vendor. It’s clear that the iPhone maker had a bumper quarter, reporting record sales of 74.5 million smartphones. However, Samsung is only saying that it sold 95 million total handsets, of which, it says, somewhere between 71 million and 75 million (the “high 70 percent”) were smartphones.
So has Apple finally beaten Samsung? It’s impossible to say with absolute certainty. Samsung isn’t likely to give up any more information on the topic, and analysts and industry experts are hedging their bets accordingly. Some are marking it as a dead heat while others are claiming Apple as the winner. Counterpoint Research, which polls global distributors for its figures, says the iPhone maker is definitely ahead — pegging Samsung’s shipments at only 73.8 million. Ben Bajarin, an analyst for Creative Strategies also gives the win to Apple (see chart above), but Strategy Analytics claims both vendors shipped 74.5 million smartphones in the fourth quarter last year.
In court last winter, during discovery, Samsung was forced to reveal that their mix of phones was NOT what they claimed. . . and only 1/3 of their phones were what could be defined as "Smartphones," while another third were "Feature" phones—those capable of going on the Internet and receiving email, with built in apps, but not downloading additional apps, and the other third were at best not even up to that level, being phones that could not not connect to the internet, add any apps beyond those shipped on the phone, and were dumb phones targeted to the extreme low end of the market and 3rd world countries. This was revealed in detail after Samsung admitted in their quarterly report in November 2013 that Apple was selling more Smartphones THEN than Samsung.