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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.

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.