I don't find the lede here unreasonable. However a couple of nitpicks: The linked chart and article both imply these are only for sales at carrier stores. i.

I don't find the lede here unreasonable. However a couple of nitpicks: The linked chart and article both imply these are only for sales at carrier stores. i.e. not including Apple Store sales which are significant and Samsung has no equivalent for. Accurately weighting ranked charts with no numbers attached can be unreliable. Further the people on commission at carrier stores have an incentive in promoting devices that put more money in their pockets, making verbal sources like this even less reliable.