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Samsung Galaxy S3 outsells iPhone 5 in UK, say new figures

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A more accurate headline: "Apple fails to make enough iPhones to meet first-week demand in UK."

The iPhone 5 is extremely supply constrained at the moment so how many were sold in the UK last month would depend on how many units Apple chose to allocate to that market during that very brief initial period. Which might well have been a small number, but the number is arbitrary and not much of a reflection of demand for the phone. (Note that if they had sold more in the UK, they would have had to sell fewer somewhere else and you could write this same article about that other location instead).

The number will be meaningless until Apple gets to a point that supply is equal to demand. Either that or they should hire a polling company to poll 1,000 people to find out which phone they'd prefer.

While I'm not an Apple fan, the Android ecosystem and manufacturers still have a long way to go to compete at the same level as Apple. It's still like PCs vs. Macs out there (though getting better).

Apple doesn't share its sales figures with any third party. misleading linkbait

As much as I would put the link as bait, how would we know about the 5 million iphone if Apple doesn't share its sales figures ?

I think your parent meant "sales figure in a specific country". The 5 million thing was worldwide (or, at least, the handful of countries that offered preordering), so we don't know how many iPhones were sold in the uk.

Misleading title, iPhone 5 went on sale half way through the September.

And sold out in many places, too, so demand can't be measured by sales.

uSwitch looks at UK's most popular mobile phones "ranked by deal popularity and sales" http://www.uswitch.com/mobiles/mobile_tracker/

Just what does that mean? It doesn't seem those charts are backed up by number of devices sold, I see no count listed.

Statistics are derived from uSwitch.com, plus our network of mobile phone comparison partners.

Seems like its based on affiliate revenue and # of pageviews of the deals. uSwitch is a deals-comparison site.

"Comparison site uSwitch says the S3 outsold the iPhone on deals from British phone networks in September"

"Although the iPhone went on sale in shops on 21 September"

<sigh>

"... but the figures don't include any phones sold SIM-free."

And therefore also doesn't count orders placed directly on the Apple website. Everyone I know personally who ordered an iPhone chose this route.

ammm...but the iPhone 5 was released on september 21. How can you even compare?

How to compare? how many of phone X was sold in its first week and how many of phone Y was sold in its first week. Pretty simple. I'm not sure what the article has for numbers as I go by what I want when I buy a phone (or anything really) and not how many have been sold...

That's the point being made, there doesn't appear to be a source that allows any sort of comparison - how may of X or Y were sold? The article gives neither.

The reason is because people are waiting for the IPhone 5S.

(I know the figures may not be accurate so this is just for laughs.)

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