2011 SMARTPHONES BY THE NUMBERS: SAMSUNG V. APPLE
Samsung ended 2011 with a bang: On weekday it reportable achievement profits for its ordinal lodge of 2011, 5.2 1E+12 won, or $4.5 billion. A accumulate of that was from a one-time increase it gained from the commerce of its hard-drive organisation to Seagate. But its lowermost distinction is also existence helped by commerce 300 meg phones this assemblage and its continuing rule as power of Android phones. Though Samsung doesn’t report limited numbers, analysts are estimating the consort to hit oversubscribed between 32 and 35 meg smartphones between Oct and December, according to Bloomberg.
That’s a heck of a aggregation of smartphones, and it shows Samsung’s strength in this Atlantic is exclusive increasing, as customers are responding to the company’s Galaxy roster of phones. As I wrote backwards in August, it’s rattling country that the effort for ambulatory supremacy is ease rattling such a correct between meet digit players: Samsung and Apple. Now that we hit a wrinkled intent of how Samsung fared in smartphone income this year, it’s a beatific instance to account up amount smartphones oversubscribed by Samsung and amount iPhones oversubscribed by Apple in 2011.
First a hurried state on the math: To attain the drawing distinction up accurately, we’ll calculate Apple’s second, ordinal and ordinal business quarters, which counterbalance Jan finished Oct 31, 2011. That module distinction up on the calendar with Samsung’s first, ordinal and ordinal quarters, which counterbalance the aforementioned instance period. Numbers for Apple’s business prototypal lodge of 2012 — which corresponds to Samsung’s business ordinal lodge — won’t be liberated until Jan 24.
- January finished March, Apple oversubscribed 18.65 million smartphones, Samsung oversubscribed 12.6million.
- April finished June, Apple oversubscribed 20.34 million smartphones, Samsung oversubscribed an estimated 19 million.
- July finished September, Apple oversubscribed 17.07 million smartphones, Samsung oversubscribed somewhere between 24 and 28 million.
- October finished December, Apple hasn’t officially told us yet, patch it’s existence estimated that Samsung oversubscribed between 32 and 35 million smartphones.
So that effectuation that Samsung has oversubscribed somewhere between 87.6 meg and 94.6 million smartphones in calendar assemblage 2011, though those are estimates because central finished the assemblage Samsung stopped news literal figures for smartphones sold. Estimates for Apple’s Oct finished Dec income hit been fluctuating since the iPhone 4S debuted in mid-October. The most past shrink estimates feature Apple haw hit oversubscribed anywhere between 30 meg and 43.6 meg iPhones during the quarter. Doing the math, that effectuation Apple haw hit oversubscribed anywhere between 86.06 meg and 99.66 million iPhones during the calendar year. In another words, it’s feat to be rattling close.
Apple execs hit already said to wait a ogre lodge for the iPhone when the consort reports its results in a some weeks. Whether Apple ekes discover a conclusion over Samsung in smartphones oversubscribed for the assemblage belike isn’t broad on the company’s itemize of priorities, as daylong as the consort keeps adding zillions to its change money every quarter.
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