Short answer: more Android devices are sold than iOS devices, but the iPhone is the single best selling smartphone in almost every market. For example, Apple ou

Short answer: more Android devices are sold than iOS devices, but the iPhone is the single best selling smartphone in almost every market. For example, Apple outsells Samsung in the U.S., though you wouldn't know it from the media coverage. Samsung actually missed their numbers the previous quarter; they admit that 2014 will be "a challenge" for them: http://www.theverge.com/2014/7/30/5953603/samsung-sales-and-profits-down-q2-2014 http://www.theverge.com/2014/7/30/5953603/samsung-sales-and-... Apple sold about 79 million iPhones the past two quarters (Apple sales data is at http://images.apple.com/pr/pdf/q3fy14datasum.pdf http://images.apple.com/pr/pdf/q3fy14datasum.pdf). Apple announced on September 22 they sold 10 million iPhone 6 and 6 Plus devices the first weekend they were available: http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2014/09/22First-Weekend-iPhone-Sales-Top-10-Million-Set-New-Record.html http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2014/09/22First-Weekend-iPho... The 6 and 6 Plus go on sale in China on all three carriers on October 17th, where there have been 4 million pre-orders: https://gigaom.com/2014/10/03/china-iphone-6-reservations-reportedly-top-4m-before-pre-orders-even-start/ https://gigaom.com/2014/10/03/china-iphone-6-reservations-re... All of this before new iPads, which are expected on October 16 and the holiday buying season. In the previous holiday quarter, Apple sold 51 million iPhones (http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2014/01/27Apple-Reports-First-Quarter-Results.html); http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2014/01/27Apple-Reports-Firs... there's a good chance they'll sell more this time around. Apple is likely to sell many Apple Watches next year, so it's not that hard to see why they'll consume 25% of all LPDRAM.