Apple iPhone 5 and 4S top global smartphone shipments for Q4 2012

20 February, 2013
Apple's iPhone 5 overtook the Galaxy S III to top the global smartphone sales in Q4 last year, reports says.

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  • 21 Feb 2013

mordecai, 21 Feb 2013Appple made apple maps so that it can start earning the rev... moreApple made Apple maps because Google was trying to sell them a gimped version of Google maps for the iphone. Apple kicked them out and a few months later they came crawling back with a version that was better on iOS than any other platform. Also, are you that naive to think that Google doesn't want to make money too?

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    • 21 Feb 2013

    AnonD-1825, 21 Feb 2013http://developer.samsung.com/forum/board/thread/view.do?boa... moreSamsung galaxy s3 can copy,move and paste go to the phone file manager and u will see for yourself

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      • 21 Feb 2013

      AnonD-1825, 21 Feb 2013http://developer.samsung.com/forum/board/thread/view.do?boa... moreIf samsung tourch wiz is not your cup of tea u can change it just download a custom rom or launcher from google play store the is go launcher,nova which will change look factionality and many more unlike ios which u just stack to ios look

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        • 21 Feb 2013

        mordecai, 21 Feb 2013Appple made apple maps so that it can start earning the rev... moreHonestly, it might have gotten bad rep to begin with, cause they are starting fresh.. but Apple Maps is the best looking MAPS I have ever used on any phone.. and I have used it in New York, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Sydney and it works beautiful.. Wait till they get it spot on for those other people.. it will also be the best Map product.. remember my words. It looks so clean, and is so smooth..

        PS Get your facts right:

        Apple made Apple Maps because Google would not give Apple the same functionality to Apple as Google had on its own phones.. things like vector graphics and turn by turn.. Apple kept asking, and Google kept saying no.. so Apple said "fuck it" and made their own. The what did Google do? Realised the beast they created and gave up the maps straight away. And it looks shit anyway.

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          • 21 Feb 2013

          mordecai, 21 Feb 2013Appple made apple maps so that it can start earning the rev... moreOK.. And Google created Android and the icon layout from where exactly? For free? The music store? Play store? They dont want money? Is google on the stock exchange? Are they a massive company designed with profit in mind?

          Just because they are NOT as GOOD as APPLE.. does NOT mean they are not there for PROFIT like EVERY other publicly listed company.

          Android fans say some of the most STUPID stuff I have ever seen. "Apple is an evil company.." yeah, right.. and Google copied them!! Pieces of plastic shit selling old A9 in ":new S3".

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            • 21 Feb 2013

            mordecai, 21 Feb 2013Appple made apple maps so that it can start earning the rev... moreHow true is that I don't know, but all business corporation nowadays only care about profit. That includes google. All are the same.

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              • 21 Feb 2013

              AnonD-1825, 21 Feb 2013http://developer.samsung.com/forum/board/thread/view.do?boa... moreHonestly at this point I think TouchWiz is the problem, not android itself. Though I'm curious to try a pure google android device.

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                • 21 Feb 2013

                WOW.. all those people saying how SGS3 is best selling phone.. it cant even beat iPHONE 4S!!!! HAHAHA!!

                Never forget the beautiful fruit..

                "An Apple a day, keeps the plastic away!!"

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                  • 21 Feb 2013

                  Anonymous, 21 Feb 2013Doesn't matter other services earns more money than maps. R... moreAppple made apple maps so that it can start earning the revenue that google was earning and apple did not care of the poor map capabilities of apple maps it just wanted to make revenue even if apple maps was getting people lost to apple only making revenue mattered

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                    • 21 Feb 2013

                    http://developer.samsung.com/forum/board/thread/view.do?boardName=GeneralB&messageId=221255

                    Now i understand why more and more sgs3 users are going for iPhone, samsung touch wiz has huge flaw, you cant copy paste anything. And it looks like samsung isnt going to do anything about that, the flaw has been there for months, typical samsung.

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                      • 21 Feb 2013

                      I blame the poor build quality of samsung galaxy s iii and their relentless copying of apple's single button design for this.

                      If only S3 had a body as elegant as HTC One, I bet it would still be at the top.

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                        • 21 Feb 2013

                        mordecai, 21 Feb 2013The same way it did when the was no google maps for ios or ... moreDoesn't matter other services earns more money than maps. Revenue earned is revenue earned no matter how big or small. No business corporation would miss an opportunity to report a raise in coporate earnings.

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                          Anonymous, 21 Feb 2013Exactly. That's the reason why google had to have their map... moreThe same way it did when the was no google maps for ios or when they was no ios and what about other google services like youtube,gmail,google maps/earth and google search engine.google search which even generate more revenue than google maps

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                            mordecai, 21 Feb 2013google maps used to support ios but apple removed it in ios... more"google maps used to support ios but apple removed it in ios6"

                            Yes, but it was broken always, no tbt nav or voice nav and now iOS users have both of them, thanks to apple which got google scared :)

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                              Anonymous, 21 Feb 2013They ARE the guilty ones. The 1.05 billion lawsuit awarded ... moretrue

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                                • 21 Feb 2013

                                mordecai, 21 Feb 2013google maps used to support ios but apple removed it in ios... moreExactly. That's the reason why google had to have their maps on iOS devices, because iOS makes up the majority of mobile internet usage. Without all those iOS users how do you think google would be able to generate large ad revenues? Simply put Google needs iOS users to generate avenue for them. Theres too many of them to ignore.

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                                  • 21 Feb 2013

                                  Anonymous, 21 Feb 2013Back to the main story Well done Apple!it's just the q4 samsung is still number 1 smartphone manufacturer in world and apple is still second and nobody remember second place the only remember first place samsung the champions

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                                    • 21 Feb 2013

                                    Back to the main story

                                    Well done Apple!

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                                      AnonD-1825, 21 Feb 2013"And thanks to Google and not Apple iOS 6 have turn by... moregoogle maps used to support ios but apple removed it in ios6 and replaced it with they map service which was full of bugs lucking map data information and I think apple did that so google can make new google maps app for ios6 and google maps works with internet connection and internet is not free so google still makes money from ios google maps app

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                                        Tom-Helge, 21 Feb 2013To bad Apple Maps sucks horribly compared to Google Maps. ... moreLike i said well played apple ;)

                                        IOS users have wanted good tbt for years and google didnt want to give it for iOS users, because that would lose their edge about maps, now after iOS6 map solution they right away gave it to for iOS users. Just like i said, after what apple did now we iOS users have what we wanted in first place :) im really starting to think that this was apple plan all the time.

                                        I ad one more time, well played apple!