Apple hits three-year low in smartphone marketshare, shipment figures revea


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Fresh reports on the state of the cellphone market during Q2 2013 have blown through the barn door, and industry analysts are flaunting some fairly impressive figures. Smartphones have outsold their less-intelligent brethren for the second quarter in a row, and Strategy Analytics says shipments hit a record-breaking 237.9 million. According to IDC, Samsung managed to ship a total of 72.4 million smartphones during Q2 -- a 43.9% boost year-over-year -- with help of the Galaxy S 4 and price cuts to the GS3. To put that in perspective, that's more than double the 31.2 million iPhones Apple managed to ship, and Strategy Analytics claims this marks a three-year low in Cook and Co.'s marketshare. While LG and ZTE each occupy third and fifth place, respectively, Lenovo pushed Huawei out of the number four slot by sending out 11.3 million handsets. If you're craving for more stats, hit the break for a trio of press releases.

 

 

http://www.engadget.com/2013/07/26/apple-three-year-low-smartphone-marketshare/

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Damn. Samsung was a little baby cub when Apple first released the iPhone in 2007. Now, it's a very large adult grizzly bear and it's still growing.

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Damn. Samsung was a little baby cub when Apple first released the iPhone in 2007. Now, it's a very large adult grizzly bear and it's still growing.

thanks to the nutrients: Android.

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Got my first mac (2013 Air) recently and its been an amazing notebook (though OSX would never be a useful desktop OS for me as a gamer).  Been considering getting an iPhone and replacing my S3..certain things just bug me about android.  Needing custom roms to be up to date, batt life being crap on those roms, and the fact that the high end android devices keep getting bigger and bigger and I cant one hand my phone...

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thanks to the nutrients: Android.

 

It's down to the eliteness of the pointless features and extremely large display... plus it's the phone people get when they want to stick it to Apple.

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Nokia is not even in the Top 5 !!!

 

Nokia used to be at the top of the heap. I don't know what happened to this brand. It suddenly disappeared from public view.

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thanks to the nutrients: Android.

Actually the nutrient is low prices.

 

It's also why smartphones are thumping feature phones and dumbphones year after year after year - among ALL carriers that offer subsidized handsets, there are more smartphones offered for either little upfront cost or NO upfront cost than either feature phones or dumbphones with the same subsidy.  (Right now, the ONLY carrier or MVNO that doesn't offer a smartphone with either little or zero upfront cost in the US is Tracfone subsidiary Safelink Wireless - the question is how long can this continue?)  You're making that generalization because there are no (or very few) WP8 handsets in that end of the smartphone ocean - note there are also no iPhones in that end, either.

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LG shows as a high turnaround though. That'd be thanx to the Nexus 4, best phone out IMO.

Don't even know what Lenovo makes for phones, but I know they make crap computers.

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