Apple overtakes Samsung in US

[ps3-sales!]

ebw said:

dallas said:

superchunk said:
You do realize they just trade back and forth every year as their new devices launch.

When the next "galaxy" series launched Samsung is #1 until the next iPhone launches... rinse and repeat.

That could be it, I mean we are talking about quarterly results here.  I think that results on a  year over year kind of basis would be better information.

According to the verifiable facts, it would appear that the iPhone line has outsold the Galaxy S line (but not including other Galaxies like Note) by a wide margin in the long run.  Not just in the US, but worldwide.  So unless I've missed something big (such as a decimal place, or I accidentally compared region vs world somewhere), I think it's a false equivalence that the two flagships of Apple and Samsung just keep trading places back and forth.  When you smooth out short-term fluctuations like product launches, iPhone seems to be ahead by a mile, and Samsung's larger unit sales mostly come from elsewhere (anyone have hard numbers on the Note series?).

Samsung does have like 19 phones at their sales disposal so that accounts for a lot.