Apple Retakes Top Spot as World’s Largest Smartphone Seller

[Maura]

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AppleInsider reports that according to new estimates just published by Strategy Analytics looking at the global smartphone market for the fourth quarter of 2011, Apple has just edged its way back past Samsung to retake the top spot as the world’s largest smartphone vendor. Strategy Analytics figures have Apple selling 37.0 million units in the fourth quarter of 2011, while it has Samsung as selling 36.5 million units for the same quarter. However, as far as unit sales for the entire year go, Samsung actually comes out the winner on that one for the first time ever, with unit shipments of an estimated 97.4 million for 2011, compared to 93 million for Apple. Nokia seems to be the only other smartphone vendor with any hope of catching up with Apple and Samsung at the moment, coming in third with an annual unit shipment total of 77.3, still a long way off the other two. [/FONT]

[FONT=&amp]Source: Apple reclaims title of world's largest smartphone maker after blowout quarter[/FONT]

 

[iHolophyte]

Maybe it's just me but the pic you posted shows Samsung ahead of apple.


iHolophyte

 

[bab2010]

Maybe it's just me but the pic you posted shows Samsung ahead of apple.


iHolophyte

No no, if you sum up from Q4 '10 to 2011 Apple is ahead of Samsung.

 

[Maura]

Maybe it's just me but the pic you posted shows Samsung ahead of apple.


iHolophyte

As the article states and the table shows, Apple was slightly ahead in Q4, but behind Samsung for the year as a whole. The last column shows the annual figure, the second-to-last column shows the Q4 figure.