Samsung's Galaxy S III Steals Smartphone Crown From iPhone 348
zacharye writes "The best-selling smartphone in the world is no longer an iPhone. New data released on Thursday by market research firm Strategy Analytics finds that Samsung's Galaxy S III was the world's top-selling smartphone model in the third quarter this year, displacing Apple's iPhone for the first time in years. Samsung announced earlier this week that cumulative Galaxy S III channel sales reached the 30 million unit milestone and according to Strategy Analytics, 18 million of those were shipped in Q3 2012. During the same period, Apple shipped an estimated 16.2 million iPhone 4S handsets, slipping into the No.2 spot for the quarter..." Also at Slash Cloud.
And if Samsung is the King... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Purse Phone (Score:5, Funny)
this message was brought to you by the small hands brigade.
Re:Why is the comparision made against the iPhone (Score:5, Funny)
I hope that was a humorous remark regarding the vast discrepancy between your user id and jandrese's. The alternative is just too ridiculous.
Re:Samsung is better than Apple (Score:5, Funny)
Love the moderation on this one. Currently "Informative", but every single descriptor fits if you think about it.
Re:Samsung is better than Apple (Score:5, Funny)
It's not as easy as you think to be able to hide behind the Anonymous Coward moniker, Mr. Cook.
I have to wonder... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Shipments != sales (Score:3, Funny)
No, they could not possibly have dumped any bunches into the channel. Because every single quarter, all these ~Apple zealots~ experts tell me that Samsung is shipping way more than are being sold. So by this point, all the warehouses must be full. It is not possible to dump anything more into the channel.
I hear they've just installed a big conveyor belt that takes the phones right as they come off the factory production lines, and it takes them straight to the nearest garbage dump. Their business strategy is to make Apple zealots so angry about market share numbers that they have aneurysms which incapacitates them and prevents them from buying any more iPhones.