iPhone cedes its crown, outsold by Samsung Galaxy S3
qz.com
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2) The article title references the 4S, not the iPhone 5, the current flagship. Kind of unfair to make a serious comparison between Samsung's (excellent) flagship device vs. the "old" iPhone model.
3) This is for a single quarter, the quarter before the iPhone 5 was announced. The quarter where iPhone rumors and leaks and photos were at its apex.
4) Here's the original report from Strategy Analytics:
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20121108005702/en/Stra...
5) Let's break the last link down:
SGS III sold 18 million units for Q3 12.
The iPhone 4S sold 16.2 million units.
Hey! the SGSIII wins. Wait a minute. The iPhone 5 launched and sold 6 million units.
So you have SGSIII sales of 18m units. But iPhone sales are actually 22.2m units for the quarter.
So, despite the title, this report is showing that the iPhone 4S/5 _outsold_ the SGSIII.
6) I flagged this submission because we don't need junk submissions like this here.
The REAL story here is: A single Android device has outsold a single iPhone device in a single quarter.
All facts aside why this happened, it is still a major feat that, of all Android options, one reigned over a single iPhone device for the quarter.
FYI: You may want to check your Jimmies for signs of Rustling.
EDIT: What about SII/SI?? Also, there was a surge of 4S sales when the price dropped.
Too many ways to look at it, no reason to get so defensive. For single device sales, iPhone didn't reign champ for one quarter. Not spam, but not that big of a deal because iPhone will come back next quarter.
It's fair to say that Apple enthusiasts would be holding off on buying any iPhone that quarter since they knew the next version would soon be announced (which probably moots the overall article point just on its own). But that doesn't make the overall comparison for the quarter meaningless.