Samsung Led Smartphone Shipments For 2021, Beating Out Apple (cnet.com) 39
Around 1.35 billion smartphones were shipped in 2021, according to IDC's quarterly mobile phone tracker. Overall, fewer smartphones were shipped in the final quarter of 2021 compared to Q4 2020 but overall, more were shipped last year than in 2020, IDC said Thursday. CNET reports: Samsung retook the top spot for smartphone shipments in 2021, holding 20% market share globally after shipping 272 million phones during the year. Apple came in second, at 235.7 million phones, Xiaomi with 191 million, Oppo with 133.5 million and Vivo with 128.3 million. Slightly different numbers from Counterpoint Research, also released Thursday, showed similar results: Samsung in first place with 271 million phones shipped during 2021, Apple in second with 237.9 million, Xiaomi with 190 million, Oppo with 143.2 million and Vivo with 131.3 million. It's the first time the smartphone market has grown annually since 2017, according to Counterpoint, with Apple clocking record shipments.
Makes sense (Score:2)
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Yeah, they're really 'liberal'
I'm sure they'd love it if we taxed the rich more, increased corporate tax, bla bla bla
get real
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Re: Makes sense (Score:2, Interesting)
Re: Makes sense (Score:3)
Their privacy stance is entirely bullshit, as they are part of PRISM just like everyone else, and it is safe to assume that they are just as guilty of participating with everyone else's citizen spying program. They "only" give your personal data to the party which presents the greatest danger.
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The difference if not very large, but it's the opposite. "Obama voters were comprised of 47% iPhone owners and 50% Android, while Romney voters were made up 34% iPhone owners and 29% Android." https://www.alistdaily.com/med... [alistdaily.com]
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What did the other 37% use, burner phones from Wal-Mart? Snap-fon for Seniors?
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Telegrams and carrier pigeons.
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In 2012, Symbian had 25% market share and Blackberry 10%. Nokia Series 40, Samsung Tizen and Windows phone were recent additions. We did lose a lot in OS diversity. https://earthweb.com/operating... [earthweb.com]
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That is more telling of smartphone usage based on political party, than Brand Preference. As each seemed to skew 3%-4% from each other.
Besides The Conservatives back in 2012 are much different than Conservatives in 2022.
Re: Makes sense (Score:2)
Yeah, using an Apple phone might turn you into a gay or transgender. I have seen it happen. Beware.
Fool.
Re: Makes sense (Score:2)
By the way, what phone do you use? You cannot use Android, given the liberal politics of Google and its founders. 2009 Blackberry? Nope. Woke Canadians. I guess you must be using landline. Hope that phone is not made in China.
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I do find it very Sad, how conservatives are seeming to try to distill their beliefs into a Pure Conservative while every one is those filthy liberals.
Oh look a company decided to Vaccinate their staff, they are Liberal Hippies, where they were a week ago a beacon of Conservative identity.
If you dig into almost any successful company or organization you are going to find that their are policies that will go against the Conservative ideology, just because being Pure conservative just will not work as a busin
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Apple phones are probably more expensive in average price. A lower cost product will sell at higher volumes.
That's true, but the real difference is in total cost of ownership. With Samsung phones you can mostly reflash them with LineageOS [lineageos.org] which is still supporting some ten year old devices (Apple gives up around 7) and you can also use Fdroid [f-droid.org]. Whilst most people won't get away with purely FOSS apps, you can reduce the number of proprietary "no idea what it's doing under the skin and how it's selling my data" apps to a minimum. If you can get away with E [doc.e.foundation] or use MicroG [microg.org] you might also be able to reduce the cost o
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The whole privacy "spiel" from /e/ is a joke. Last time they weren't supporting encrypting the device and the recovery was wide open (not that it mattered as on almost all devices you couldn't re-lock the bootloader), anyway it was trivial to just boot to recovery and transfer anything over adb or similar. There were threads with people losing phones in the bus or sim
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My LineageOS phone is encrypted and the encryption cam after the installation; that seems secure enough for me [stackexchange.com]. Probably something similar is possible on /e/ given that it's based on LineageOS? The way I built it is a pain (hand flashing etc) so I wouldn't recommend it to everyone but it's fine for me and should be fine for most people on Slashdot.
This has the same evil maid resilience limitations as a standard Linux Laptop. In other words, if someone managed to replace your bootloader they could in princi
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No, it isn't possible they're way more backwards and limited and behind LineageOS even if based on that.
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No, it isn't possible they're way more backwards and limited and behind LineageOS even if based on that.
Hmmm.. I'm really surprised but this can't personally check what's going on for you however this thread shows that there's a limited set of devices where encryption doesn't work [community.e.foundation] whilst for most others it does. I'd guess that's your problem?? I definitely wouldn't recommend going for a device where encryption is broken - choose a different one. If /e/ doesn't do it on your device then definitely try LineageOS instead.
Re: Makes sense (Score:2)
Those features you mentioned are probably used by less than 5 percent of Samsung users. They are not the major explanation.
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Those features you mentioned are probably used by less than 5 percent of Samsung users. They are not the major explanation.
Hate to say this, but neither I, nor many of the readers of Slashdot care much about the opinion of that 95% except when we're selling them something or providing them with some form or support. If you belong to that group then please don't feel hurt by this. I do recognise, though, that we aren't, maybe, the primary cause of Samsung beating Apple on sales, but then given that a huge proportion of people buy their phones subsidised together with contracts from their network it's unlikely that the average
Don't forget Google Pixel shitting the bed (Score:2)
Apple phones are probably more expensive in average price. A lower cost product will sell at higher volumes.
Are Samsung phones cheaper? If so, not by much. I thought the S series was priced the same as the standard iPhone? I don't think cost is the major concern.
There is a huge market for Android phones. If I had to cite one reason it's more than Android market is consolidating a bit. Pixels used to be exciting. They used to be clearly better than iPhones. Now they're kind of underwhelming. Essentially same price, probably no special hardware features that are better. Other makers are just not releasi
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"Apple phones are probably more expensive in average price. A lower cost product will sell at higher volumes."
Poor people and Conservatives buy Samsungs, there are more of them.
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Samsung also has more models of phones to choose from than Apple, which I think would also be the cause of the additional sales.
We got the A for more Budget users
We got the S that is more or less the same as the Premium iPhone
We got 2 different Z, which have a folding feature.
We got the Note, which is a phablet.
People just have more choice, with Samsung.
How did Samsung retake the lead it already had? (Score:4, Insightful)
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What I don't understand is how they are in the lead. The last time I bought a Samsung phone which was about 10 years ago, I discovered the Samsung bloatware could not be removed. From then on when it came to deciding on a smartphone it was anything except Samsung.
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Not a chance I'll ever buy... (Score:1)
Samsung Led Smartphone
No chance I'll ever buy an organic LED device ever again. The rate they degrade makes them useless far more quickly than the otherwise flagship phone specs would. The more you use it, the more you lose it. It's pretty, but far too ephemeral. Give me LCD.
Fairphone still wins for me.
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My 5 year old Samsung A5 2017 oled is still as good as the day I bought it.
I also bought our 3 kids the same model and ditto. No screen issues.
My wife has a note 9. No issues.
Not saying it doesn’t happen on some models, but it’s not been a problem for us.
Muh monopoly!!! (Score:2)
But... but.... Apple is a monopoly!!!
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But... but.... Apple is a monopoly!!!
Guess what, a company can be a monopoly in one market (say Electricity) and not be a monopoly in another market it's in (say gas). Apple is not a monopoly in the phone market. On the other hand, they are a monopoly in the iPhone app market. You can't use Android apps on an iPhone or the other way around so these are not one connected market but two separate ones. Apple could allow other companies to get involved in distributing apps to iPhones as we can see from other operating systems.
Total Android phones vs iPhones... (Score:3)
So this is 724+ million Android phones compared to 235.7 iPhones.
Something to consider (Score:3)
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Also interesting, Xiaomi got a not very far-off 3rd place, while still not even trying to enter the US market! They are #1 in quite a few (European at least) countries...
Not With My Help (Score:2)