Path: ...!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.bofh.team!paganini.bofh.team!not-for-mail From: Android Owner Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android,misc.phone.mobile.iphone Subject: Re: Apple loses top phonemaker spot to Samsung Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2024 02:26:20 -0000 (UTC) Organization: To protect and to server Message-ID: References: <1OicndcpH_uzV4D7nZ2dnZfqnPudnZ2d@supernews.com> Injection-Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2024 02:26:20 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: paganini.bofh.team; logging-data="1795810"; posting-host="9W8EoudPqC84CncjTwLoXQ.user.paganini.bofh.team"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@bofh.team"; posting-account="9dIQLXBM7WM9KzA+yjdR4A"; X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.3 Bytes: 2058 Lines: 20 On Tue, 16 Apr 2024 00:45:34 +0000, Tyrone wrote: > Apple and Samsung routinely trade 1st and 2nd place, and have for a long time. It's unusual to find someone on an Apple newsgroup, which Tyrone is (I looked at his posts) who says anything deep about any marketing dynamic (as Apple owners are generally only influenced by slick advertisements) so I give a tiny bit of credit to this "Tyrone" fellow for understanding more than the average iPhone poster does about Apple's sales figures. While this "Tyrone" is wrong, as he's unaware that Samsung alone has been the top seller for 12 years, he is probably alluding to the recent anomaly where Apple had momentarily (only once!) overtaken Samsung as the world's number one phone maker with strong sales in the December 2023 quarterly reports, but it turned out to likely be nothing more than a dying gasp. Apple lost 10% of its sales in just the last quarter alone, where if Apple can only have 9 more of similarly astonishing losing quarters, we could maybe finally be rid of the one smartphone company in the world that has never had any intention to interoperate with 85% of the phones in this world (yes, messaging app - I'm speaking to you).