Originally Posted by steviedab:
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I thought Apple had the biggest share, but they have only 17.8% compared with Samsung of 34.6%. Proves how wrong I've been along being tricked into believing Apple were the biggest (only for Q2 lol)”
I don't think that Apple have ever been the biggest supplier of mobile phones, that has historically been Nokia and more recently Samsung. It is simply due to the huge range of phones of different prices and specifications which these companies.
Often though where the confusion comes from is that Apple certainly dominates the whole industry in terms of profits from the sale of mobiles. Apparently during the first quarter of 2012, in terms of profits Apple and Samsung between them accounted for 99% of the total global mobile market, Apple alone pulled in over 70%. I think that sometimes reports get mixed up, some analysts will say that Apple has a massively dominant market share and that gets mistranslated in units sold.