iPhone shipments post slowest-ever growth

[phaZed]

iPhone shipments post slowest-ever growth (4/25/2013)

Apple Inc.'s iPhone saw its share of the global smartphone market decline to 18% in the first quarter from 23% a year earlier, with its shipment growing at the lowest rate ever in its history, research firm Strategy Analytics said in its latest report.

In the same quarter, South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. captured its highest-ever market share of 33% in the global smartphone market, compared to 29% a year earlier, the report said.

"Samsung shipped almost two times more smartphones and grew nine times faster than Apple during the (first) quarter," said Strategy Analytics Executive Director Neil Mawston in the report. "Apple's premium-only strategy for the iPhone is approaching a natural ceiling and it will need to expand deeper into large markets like China or launch a lower-priced iPhone model for mass-market users," he said.

Samsung's world-wide smartphone shipment rose 56% to a record 69.4 million units in the quarter, while Apple's shipment grew 7% to 37.4 million units, its lowest-ever year-on-year growth rate, the report said.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/iphone-shipments-post-slowest-ever-growth-report-2013-04-25

and

Apple versus Microsoft: the ticker tape tells the tale (4/26/2013)
Microsoft Up, Apple Down (For all the Windows is dead folks)

The conventional wisdom is that Microsoft is flailing and Apple is a productivity machine. Apple’s products are uniformly loved and Microsoft’s are unable to get any traction. Apple's cool, Microsoft's not.

And yet the company’s stock prices have gone in completely opposite directions since the launch of Windows 8.

[Microsoft]managed to increase its profit 19 percent over the corresponding quarter last year. How? By concentrating on the boring, yet highly profitable units that most tech bloggers yawn at. Microsoft Business Division (responsible for Office 365, which is about to become a billion-dollar business) and Server and Tools (with multiple billion-dollar businesses under its umbrella) are both bigger than Windows ... Meanwhile, the Windows Division reported flat revenues even though PC shipments dropped by 14 percent during the same period.

http://www.zdnet.com/apple-versus-microsoft-the-ticker-tape-tells-the-tale-7000014556/

 

[SAG]

I'm not a debater, especially when it comes to phones. I own both Android and Apple phones. But when I read this stuff I just have to roll my eyes a bit and laugh.

Samsung shipped almost two times more smartphones and grew nine times faster than Apple during the (first) quarter
Well, doesn't Samsung have about 50 phones in production right now and Appl only 1? Knowing that, I'm more alarmed by the fact that it can even be considered newsworthy that Samsung sold more phones in this given 90 day period than Apple! I mean hell, 50 to 1!! Also, how many phones did Apple release directly before given quarter? Now how many phones did Samsung release? How many Apple phones are given away free just for signing up compared to Samsung? See what I mean?

I'm not arguing you here, honestly I don't think I give a swollen rat's rectum one way or the other. In 3 months we'll read something different, and then 3 months after that a new story. The same as it has been for years and years. If these analysts didn't write all this crap on a constant basis, then they would cease to seem relevant. So they keep drilling it out there. Bleh!

But I'm not arguing. I'm neither a fanboy of one or the other. I have a GS3 and an iPhone, and use them both. Is one better than the other? Sure! But the reason "why" depends on the person, the context, and the application.

 

[phaZed]

The reason I posted this up is because the quarterly results have just been posted/analysed. With all of the "Apple/Microsoft" and "MS is dead" threads.. the numbers are out.. and all the previous debate can be summed up with the real numbers and data.

Actually, this is a first for Apple and Samsung.. so it's not an every three month new thing.

 

[SAG]

Actually, this is a first for Apple and Samsung.. so it's not an every three month new thing.

Give it time.
Sorry, I have a pickle up my backside today with this project I am working on - kinda took it out on you... in a way... without being too much of a jerk about it.

I'm dealing with yet ANOTHER person who bought a server within the last few years that's no more powerful than my phone with pirated windows/sql on it.

 

[anonymous Mac Tech]

With all of the "Apple/Microsoft" and "MS is dead" threads..

You mean like this thread?

 

[phaZed]

You mean like this thread?

Nope, just parroting the news so that others can stop spewing what "they think".