Apple Inc. Message Board

5/1/2012 11:28:41 AM

"Research firm IDC posted a report that said in the first quarter, Samsung shipped 42.2 million smartphones while Apple shipped 35.1 million. That gave Samsung 29.1 percent of the market and Apple 24.2 percent."

Not that it really matters, but These estimates are wrong for Sansung. Samsung said that handsets shipments were down about 10% sequentially, and that smartphones accounted for the same percentage. Apple, on the other hand, only declined 5% or so sequentially. So either Samsung beat Apple in smartphones in both the Dec and March quarters, or in neither.