Samsung ships 20M smartphones, besting Apple's 17.1M iPhones - Page 2

I'm harder than anyone with my phones, and my 3G saw a coke bath, rain, water, 40 ft drop onto a wood deck, fell on to the road at 60mph, ran over on rocks by an ATV, and so on
Still works til this day, though I use an iPhone 4 now, I loan out my 3G to ppl needing a temp phone.
That said. I've only broken my iPhone 4 screen once, not the back (only meet one person who has broken the back)
(has fallen down cement stairs, countless drops etc, no water yet.
But it's still very tough
PS. I dont use cases, too big

Lets see, 28% retention rate so that means if they sold 100% of those 20 mil only 5.6 mil would keep them.

If Apple sold all of the 17mil (89% retention rate) then of that 15.13 mil would keep them.

And that's assuming the laughable that everything shipped gets sold, many of those (even many iPhones) will likely sit in stores for a while & may not sell this quarter. These shipped numbers are pretty much 100% useless, all they tell us is that Samsung is wasting more money than Apple.

If Samsung wants to race with Apple, the best they can do is to tie. I mean, Apple is already there, at the bottom, giving away iPhones for free!

If Sammy thinks it can win against that, it will have to start paying people to take them off of their hands!

There ain't nothing cheaper than an iPhone, Sammy. It is free, and try as you might, you can't win!

Apple has ALREADY reached the bottom! You are way behind, Sammy! You've got the most expensive smartphones in the stores, and you think you can compete with Apple giving iPhones away for free?

AHAHAHAHAHAH!

There were significant markets that were not tapped in the last quarter in addition to the customers deferring purchases of the iPhone. Since then, Apple has added multiple carriers like Sprint.

Most important are the Chinese wireless carriers. The GSM/CDMA phone now can be sold in addition to China Unicom (UMTS 3G) and China Telecom (CDMA). The big elephant with 600M customers is China Mobile, but they use TD-SCDMA. They are interested in the iPhone and at some point, Apple will cut a deal with guaranteed multi-year volume.

It remains to bee seen what will be the effect of iCloud and Siri on demand of the iPhone.

Well, 3 phones. If you don't count the prepaid phones. Or the phones special-made for China. Or the different colors. Or the different capacities.

But they are all called iPhones, so if we want, we can think of all of Apple's different phones as being the same phone. Only retailers care about there being a dozen different SKUs. Most people don't know the truth, they just know "iPhone".

Apple left 2.8m or so in the channel, so I suppose this difference is quite small. I am not sure why AI did not compare Apples to Apples.

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Wall Street Journal's original article did not compare apples-to-apples. The WSJ's article, in my opinion, is not newsworthy and a bit misleading.


Slightly off-topic, but I did not find out what "BOGO" meant until a month ago when I asked my wife since I see the signs frequently in women clothes and shoes stores (e.g. Payless Shoesource).

iPhone 4 and 3gs.

NOW, its iPhone 4s, 4, and 3gs.

That remains to be seen. The iPhone is the cheapest smartphone on the planet. Nobody beats Apple in ANY race, including a race to the bottom.

Hell, Apple is at the finish line already! Apple reached absolute rock bottom before anybody else!

There is NO phone cheaper than the iPhone, not nowhere. All the cheapskates are now flocking to Apple. Apple has WON!

I hope they keep it up. I want Apple stock to get back to $350 so I can buy some more!

Quoted for truth. I don't understand how anyone could think that two panes of glass would hold up better than good old plastic when things get dicey.

That being said, I live on the edge -- I use my iPhone 4 w/o a case

Who said that they would? (although I will point out once again that just saying "plastic" and "glass" doesn't mean anything. Some glasses are more flexible than some plastics. Some plastics are more brittle than some glasses. For the sake of argument, I'll assume that you're talking about the plastic in the Nexus vs the glass in the iPhone, but you really should be more careful in making blanket statements).

People buying the iPhone buy it because the overall set of features makes it the best choice for them. Durability is only one of 100 features that people consider. Price, quality of construction, ease of use, appearance, scratch resistance, radio reception, and many, many more things must be considered.

I agree. Shipped does not equal sold. And shipped where: to another warehouse, to a distributor's outlet, to a repair depot or to a land fill?

Are you OK?

Samsung, for some curious reason, does not appear to report its handset sales in its financials.

If you know of an actual audited number that says "Sales" for Samsung, I would love to see it.

I'm undoubtedly an Android fan, but I don't like these types of reports.

Chocolate sprinkles?

i'd say close to 0% were sold in the USA. the USA didn't get the SGS 2 until last month. i've read it was a popular phone around the world and was sold unlocked almost everywhere.

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You have to love the Samsung development process. Apparently no one talks to anyone else there:


At the same time,
http://allthingsd.com/20111020/samsu...apple-patents/


Sounds like "Samsung mobile executive Won-Pyo Hong" needs to communicate better with "Samsung mobile president Shin Jong-kyun".

No wonder they can't innovate - executives there don't even talk to each other - or read the news.

So no one has explained the cell phone buying process to you? Obviously not - or you wouldn't be comparing the full unsubsidized price of various phones to the subsidized iPhone price.

And the only one in your Android list that is a contract (subsidized) price, like the two phones you list for Apple, is the Motorola Photon @$199. Soooo, what, exactly, is the point of your post?

That is brilliant dmitri thank you for that TRUTH!

I am now seriously considering ceasing to access AppleInsidious altogether for healthier pastures.

Talk about LYING DECEITFUL RUMOUR MONGERING - yes disguising as journalists THEY ARE NOT!

Giving a title to a story is the most serious business a site like this should have.

So they write that Samsung shipped this number and when you go read the text (not story) the first thing you realize is that they lied and Samsung did not ship the number after all, it's just a rumor?!?!

Apple Insider is taking part in the insidious campaign against Apple, trying to masquerade reality and induce a bad vibe towards Apple products.

Like those reports that the Apple earnings were a disappointment - Apple surpassed its guidance!!! - and the iPhone 4S is not that big an upgrade - because it bears an extremelly highly successful and excellent design everyone craves?! - and the list goes on.

The evil minded ones are trying to take advantage of an apparent vulnerability the absence of Steve Jobs may seem. By insinuation and manipulating, they expect Apple's popularity goes down. Maybe they're playing the stock shorting it yet again since they know it's going to blast past all previous records. Yeah, why not, if you live thinking you have an influence over people and you have some stock yourself it might prove difficult to turn away from temptation, isn't it so?

I'll probably turn to 9to5mac.com. You see, they are not this grey!

You cannot compare any unsubsidized price to Apple. Apples and oranges!

IPhones are the cheapest phones on the market. At any carrier. BOGO Android phones require a layout of hundreds, and you need to subscribe to two service plans: That is NOT free.

The iPhone is free. No cash needed. No waiting for a rebate. No nothing; just free. The iPhone is the absolute best choice for all the world's cheapskates.

People care about specs, but I agree with you. Craftmanship (i.e. weight balance, quality materials) means alot to me. Of course without the beautiful, smooth and functional UI, it wouldn't matter. iPhone has got it all. Sure, spec-wise, it lacks certain things, but mostly they're not essential functionality for me. Everytime I take a look at my iPhone, I'm amazed at the overall quality of the phone... just beautiful.

Do you honestly not have that guy on ignore?!

I'm always amazed at the weirdos that can switch their position within the same post. To be a troll I assume they know better but re purposive asking dumb so I can't imagine them writing such crap. This is just stupidity, plain and simple.

Benefit of the doubt: where can I free iPhone that has Doesn't require a "need to subscribe to two [year] service plans".

Samsung stated (after the first quarter results) they would mo longer break out detailed mobile revenue resuilts. The generally assumed reason had to do with Apple's legal efforts, but I don't know if Samsung themselves explained why mobile results wouldn't be detailed in the future. Have to do a bit of research to see if Samsung mentioned it.

retard

You mean a company that has been in the cell phone market for over a decade and sells several dozen models in almost every country in the world potentially outsold another company that's been in the cell phone market for about four years, and basically only sells one model phone, and only in select countries. And they only outsold them by an estimated 3-4 million units ...

What does that really tell you ...?

Usually I can at least get your line of thinking, but I'm really struggling to figure out your reasoning on this thread. Does that post say what you meant it to? I can't even make enough sense of it to argue. Whatever - maybe I drank too much last night.

That was 'an' assumption, and one that clearly puts a negative spin on the big bad Apple with Samsung being the little guy. The most likely scenario is Samsung has had to cut a lot of revenue and profit to move their product, which would hurt their numbers which would make their investors even more fearful of the future.

Based on your post you're saying Android is charging way too much and Apple is being overly generous yet still taking in over 50% of the world's handset profits.

That's kind of a biased response.

Even if the numbers were accurate and it was a regular year, marginally beating the volume of a single product by shipping many multiple products is hardly "kicking their tail."

The main reason this happened also is that this year is not like any other year and there was a much larger than usual gap between iPhone models. If the best Samsung can do is to pull ahead by something less than ten percent in the only year when the competition couldn't ship, then they are in a lot of trouble.

If their products was actually better than the iPhone it would be winning every quarter. If it was just their latest products that were better then they should have smoked them by a lot more. No matter how you slice it, this "win" for Samsung is weak sauce indeed.

I can tell you why: they were publicly embarrassed over their tablet shipments fudge (remember "smooth"?), and decided to stop providing that data. Then they realized it would be an even bigger PR disaster if they provided data on their mobile phone sales, but not the tablet sales.

So they decided to stop providing data on both.

Bottom line: I don't trust their numbers. When they go back to providing audited figures, I'll believe them.

Maybe you're not the one doing too much drinking...

You may well be right. To release or not to release? That has to be a business decision just like everything else. They may have to worry about stock price, but low sales numbers would probably hurt their sales image and momentum.

Yeah - but as I said - I can usually follow his arguments even if I don't always agree with them. Just seems completely off today.