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Astounding, new phone model outsells old one about to be replaced soon! edit: Still, 50M is more than the 37M iPhones Apple sold in the iPhone 4S release quart

by m_eiman 14y ago

Astounding, new phone model outsells old one about to be replaced soon! edit: Still, 50M is more than the 37M iPhones Apple sold in the iPhone 4S release quarter.

olalonde 14y ago
I believe it is the first time Samsung outsells the iPhone by such a large factor (2x).
drivebyacct2 14y ago
So, with your snark, are you admitting that high end Android phones and iPhones have reached parity, or just that iOS users are leaving for fairer pasturers? I find the attempts at derision of people gaining on Apple highly humorous.
- m_eiman 14y ago
  I'm mostly complaining about pointless comparisons that only serve to support linkbait headlines.
- dan1234 14y ago
  Is it not more that Nokia and HTC users are making the jump to Samsung? They'd get a superior model (and there are many Samsung models around at various price brackets) and get to keep their apps. Does anyone have any Android vs iOS vs WP7 stats for the last quarter?
  - tluyben2 14y ago
    I would be curious to those stats as well; here (EU) I see only iPhones & S2+S3 phones. Besides the odd poster here on HN I know no-one who actually likes his/her wp7 phone and all people I knew well who got one brought it back to the shop to trade for an s2 or s3. So i'm also wondering if those sales figures include that; phones which were brought back; I assume they appear in the stats as 'sold phones' right?
  - nl 14y ago
    Does anyone have any Android vs iOS vs WP7 stats for the last quarter? Sure. In millions[1]: Samsung: 93.0 Nokia: 83.7 Apple: 26.0 Smartphone sales are more difficult to come by, but Gartner has platform stats for the latest quarter. I have to guess most of these from a chart republished in The Guardian[2]: Android: 56% iOS: ~25% Symbian: ~12% Blackberry: ~8% WinPhone: ~2% [1] http://thenextweb.com/mobile/2012/07/27/samsung-grabs-record-26-market-share-after-shipping-93m-smartphones-in-q2-2012/ http://thenextweb.com/mobile/2012/07/27/samsung-grabs-record... [2] http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/may/16/android-smartphone-market-50-percent http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/may/16/android-sma...
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neya 14y ago
Well, the iPhone 4s was compared in a similar fashion too, when it was launched. One phone model is always going to be replaced by another, at some point in time, so by all means it IS a fair comparison =)

by m_eiman 14y ago

Astounding, new phone model outsells old one about to be replaced soon! edit: Still, 50M is more than the 37M iPhones Apple sold in the iPhone 4S release quarter.

olalonde 14y ago

I believe it is the first time Samsung outsells the iPhone by such a large factor (2x).

drivebyacct2 14y ago

So, with your snark, are you admitting that high end Android phones and iPhones have reached parity, or just that iOS users are leaving for fairer pasturers? I find the attempts at derision of people gaining on Apple highly humorous.

m_eiman 14y ago
I'm mostly complaining about pointless comparisons that only serve to support linkbait headlines.
dan1234 14y ago
Is it not more that Nokia and HTC users are making the jump to Samsung? They'd get a superior model (and there are many Samsung models around at various price brackets) and get to keep their apps. Does anyone have any Android vs iOS vs WP7 stats for the last quarter?
- tluyben2 14y ago
  I would be curious to those stats as well; here (EU) I see only iPhones & S2+S3 phones. Besides the odd poster here on HN I know no-one who actually likes his/her wp7 phone and all people I knew well who got one brought it back to the shop to trade for an s2 or s3. So i'm also wondering if those sales figures include that; phones which were brought back; I assume they appear in the stats as 'sold phones' right?
- nl 14y ago
  Does anyone have any Android vs iOS vs WP7 stats for the last quarter? Sure. In millions[1]: Samsung: 93.0 Nokia: 83.7 Apple: 26.0 Smartphone sales are more difficult to come by, but Gartner has platform stats for the latest quarter. I have to guess most of these from a chart republished in The Guardian[2]: Android: 56% iOS: ~25% Symbian: ~12% Blackberry: ~8% WinPhone: ~2% [1] http://thenextweb.com/mobile/2012/07/27/samsung-grabs-record-26-market-share-after-shipping-93m-smartphones-in-q2-2012/ http://thenextweb.com/mobile/2012/07/27/samsung-grabs-record... [2] http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/may/16/android-smartphone-market-50-percent http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/may/16/android-sma...
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neya 14y ago

Well, the iPhone 4s was compared in a similar fashion too, when it was launched. One phone model is always going to be replaced by another, at some point in time, so by all means it IS a fair comparison =)