ethomaz said:
Samsung never took the 1st place with just one model... all the models together took the 1st place... even the Galaxy S3 never sold like iPhone. PS. There are a lot of more Galaxy models than you listed. |
In one of Samsung's only actual known sales numbers, they announced a couple weeks ago that the entire Galaxy S line shipped 100 million units in the 31 months since its launch in May 2010. As a new brand, it has ramped up far faster than the original iPhone (which had to single-handedly create the market for modern smartphones). There's no question that Samsung has done an extremely good job of fast-following. More quickly than any other iPhone competitor they realized it was vital to invest heavily into that market, and shrewdly outspent their competitors in marketing and production.
But notice that 109 million iPhones were sold in just the 9 months from April to December 2012 (that's a mixture of 4, 4S and 5, and there were supply shortages on the 4 and 5). Okay, to be fair to the Galaxy S4, let's count back from BEFORE the iPhone 5 launch. They sold 125 million iPhones between October 2011 to September 2012. These are hard, indisputable facts (notwithstanding my own calculation errors) taken from actionable press releases.
In VGChartz parlance, it seems fair to say that iPhone has stronger legs than Samsung Galaxy S. The flagship of the Galaxy line may overtake the iPhone at product launch time, but since the iPhone significantly outsold all three models in less than half the time, there must be a different cause for why Samsung seems to be selling more smartphones than Apple. I'll admit, I'm biased towards Apple and Nintendo, so I lean toward the "mostly low-end crap-phones" hypothesis. But I'd appreciate hearing another explanation: for instance, is it possible that all of the sales guesstimates published as fact are wildly inaccurate?
