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Originally Posted by barryem
Scroll down to the sales chart.
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Umm.. Barry, I read through the entire article before I posted. There is no sales chart. The only chart I saw was market share which showed Samsung's market share declining in 2018 though they did have a 2019F (forecast) which showed Samsung's market share increasing.
Oddly, that is one of the few places where I saw Samsung's market share projected to increase in 2019. Even that article in which that chart appears states:
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It (Samsung) is expected to remain the leading smartphone maker worldwide with a global market share of 20%.
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and then adds a chart showing Samsung's market share just over 20% in 2019. See attached image with added gridlines.
Most other forecasts showed Huawei, Xiaomo, OPPO and vivo as increasing their share while Apple and Samsung would both continue to slowly lose market share. You did notice that back in 2013, Samsung had 33% market share which was close to double Apple's in that year. The rest of the chart shows Samsung as having lost market share every year since and yet BusinessTech wants us to believe that this trend is going to change in 2019.
OTOH, profit wise, Apple is projected to continue to lead in 2019 with Samsung and Huawei in 2nd and 3rd place respecitively. Perhaps their concentration on the more profitable high end phones has something to do with that.
As for the rest of your comment, your purchase of a low end Samsung phone helps Samsung's market share but does very little for Samsung's phone division's profit margin. Strangely, most corporations seem to be more interested in profits per sale rather than sales alone.
For another article, check
Global market share held by leading smartphone vendors from 4th quarter 2009 to 4th quarter 2018.
Now if I could figure out what this has to do with the new Nook ereader...
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Figures often beguile me," he wrote, "particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: 'There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.'" -- Mark Twain