href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/oct/28/samsung-overtakes-apple-smartphone">According to the Guardian, this quarter has seen Samsung overtake Apple in revenue to become the largest smartphone maker in the world — but that analysis is based on some pretty glaring assumptions. The most important thing to note going into this is that this is for the last quarter — namely the one href="http://www.everythingicafe.com/apple-q4-results-break-records-still-miss-mark/2011/10/18/">where Apple shares dropped even after record earnings because so many people were waiting on the iPhone 4S rather than the iPhone 4. So this hasn’t exactly been a killer quarter for the iPhone.
The other factor is that this isn’t based on official numbers, but rather on those from an analyst:
Although Samsung declined to give figures for its smartphone or feature phone sales, Jae Lee, a Daiwa Securities technology analyst, estimated that in the third quarter it sold 28m smartphones – well above Apple’s figure of 17m for the period.
Well, if there’s one thing analysts are known for, it’s getting all their numbers and facts right before talking to the press! Oh wait, no, that’s the one thing they’re not known for. Nevermind.
I don’t see it as too unlikely that Samsung has passed Apple in revenue due to flooding the market with Android handsets, but without official numbers and a slightly longer term look at trends, I’m hesitant to draw conclusions.
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