Gartner: Apple is now the world's top smartphone vendor

04 March, 2015
The company edged out Samsung by selling a total of 74.83 million iPhones in Q4, 2014.

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AnonD-183154, 04 Mar 2015I used to look at Android big screen phones when I have my ... moreWhat's that flaw? Taking orders from you rather than giving them?

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    • 04 Mar 2015

    AnonD-295923, 04 Mar 2015Remember that Apple only released two phones last year vs S... moreDon't forget there are also TONS of other Android OEMs besides just Samsung in this. Millions of Android version 2 iPhone. Of course iPhone gets more per phone sales.
    But it also has 1/8th of global sales

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      • 04 Mar 2015

      Anonymous, 04 Mar 2015Are you lying in fanboy defense or seriously lack the capac... moreVery few people will admit to it, it's just the nature of the beast, people will blindly eat up anything the manufacturer of their phone says, at the same time everyone knows that the iPhone 5S had lousy sales do to being the same as the iPhone 5. To be honest here, I could care less how many phones any company sells, to me my phone is a tool to help me with my day to day tasks, it will change my day to day life if Apple, Samsung, HTC, SONY, or any other vendor sells a bazillion phones, at the end of the day when we take out that phone to do what we need to do we don't say wow it's a Samsung or Apple, all it is is a tool, that's it, nothing more nothing less.

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        • 04 Mar 2015

        AnonD-332829, 04 Mar 2015try buying class for 1/3rd the price...Millions of people obviously do. As the 70% more global sales of Android over iOS shows

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          • 04 Mar 2015

          AnonD-293632, 04 Mar 2015Good to see this news at last it has been proven now Qualit... moreAre you lying in fanboy defense or seriously lack the capacity to understand?
          Its a quarter. That took them how many years to reach one quater like this? And you claim it's because of quality?

          You do realize this is only per phone not all phones right? IPhone as two phones has a higher per phone sales because it's two phones versus millions of others. But those minions of others make up 80% sales compared to 11% for iOS.
          And you do realize that the only reason their sales rose is because they finally released larger HD displays and a phablet right?

          You think another 4 inch qHD device would have increased large sales? Of course not. And all of you factually know this. The question is how many are willing to accept it or admit it

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            Anonymous, 04 Mar 2015Lol! Benchmarks prove otherwise. Naturally it performs fast... moreSo benchmarks that don't show all real life scenarios like iOS world lead in app crash and marginal speed gains from being so limited that even pre iPhone flip phones have features and abilities it does not have even in 2015....
            and really only talks about one component mostly... Which yes we all know they use a good SoC....
            Is your side tracking way of denying the full point of the entire device they made? Without answering the million dollar question even?

            How is it they have 11% global sales and Android has 80% but the profit number literally flips?

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              • 04 Mar 2015

              Anonymous, 04 Mar 2015Yeah, its what matters most, its what they feel, not what y... moreSo you acknowledge that they just completely proved the point but fancy size track it to try and twist it

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                AnonD-357689, 04 Mar 2015Buy the phone with a purpose... I give you my own experi... moreYes! That 100% describes so many! And that beats crap.

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                  • 04 Mar 2015

                  Unfortunately when you bring a new phone out every other week like Samsung. people get bored. Iphone have common sense bring 1 new one each year and the hype sells the device. So hence why they are top maker.

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                    • 04 Mar 2015

                    Anonymous, 04 Mar 2015Slide phone is best for texting and calling. And smaller th... moreI wish some companies would put more effort into keyboard phones.
                    Samsung has a dual display flip phone that is basically equivalent to a Note 3.

                    But no keyboard phones really surpass the Droid 4 or Captivate glide. And the droid updates very severely incremental with some down grades

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                      • 04 Mar 2015

                      This doesn't mean that Apple is beating Android; Android market share is increasing. It actually doesn't mean much at all for Apple. It means that other Android manufacturers are beating Samsung.

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                        • 04 Mar 2015

                        Since I sold my iphone6 and get android phone, I never feel any better, the best decision I made in my life..

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                          • 04 Mar 2015

                          I used to look at Android big screen phones when I have my iPhone 5 but ever since I upgraded to iPhone 6+, not a single Android phone pique my interest. There are some good Android phones like S6, Note 4, Chinese phones but they all have some fatal flaws unlike the all-around iPhone.

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                            So great ......

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                              • 04 Mar 2015

                              iphone 6 vs galaxy s5 vs htc m8 - Speed test

                              https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCln9_mgZJo

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                                • 04 Mar 2015

                                Remember that Apple only released two phones last year vs Samsung which has released over 100 phone Models of which the well knowns are alpha,note 4 , A series.... Don't forget about all those stupid small and cheap phones Samsung. Released.... Go check for yourself and shut up...

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                                  • 04 Mar 2015

                                  Love my iPhone-6!!!!

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                                    • 04 Mar 2015

                                    Apple will be No.1 high quality/high end mobile phone, tablet and PC for another 10 years to come!

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                                      [deleted post]Well read the article and them draw some logical conclusions. Ur a Samsung fanboy, it's not reasonable to expect you would understand while your head is spinning at the news.

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                                        • 04 Mar 2015

                                        [deleted post]Really?