-When you look at the stats, Samsung is carrying nearly half the global marketshare of all the other Android vendors combined (keep in mind that we’ve mentioned seven other Android manufacturers in this article, and there are other lesser-known brands). Samsung is shouldering its own in the Android space (with little competition, I may add, unless you factor in the “others,” who don’t even get a specific name mention), and the stats favor Samsung.
-It’s interesting that the same tech analysts and media (some Apple and even Android tech sites) that tend to down Samsung aren’t applauding the “others” in the list. After all, the “others” category shipped more smartphones than Motorola, Samsung, and Apple last quarter. Why aren’t tech analysts and media applauding the “others” over Apple, for example?
-In contrast, Apple has no competing manufacturers with iOS. No one else but Apple makes iPhones and iPads (and now iOS smartwatches), and no other devices in the mobile space run iOS but Apple devices. And, as a result, Apple doesn’t have to share its success with anyone. There is no “slicing up the pizza,” so to speak, no divvying up the profits with anyone else but Apple. And yet, if you take a look at the company’s smartphone sales and marketshare, Apple has lost quite a bit of the steam it picked up at the end of 2014. And yet, Apple gets applauded for its sales (even though the company is still down as compared to its sales a year ago in Q1 2014), while Samsung’s recovery gets sidelined in the media space because of its losses in profit. A double standard is at play here.
-In the end, comparing Samsung and Apple’s profits are, literally, like comparing oranges to apples: the success of both companies has a context, a situation, that requires consideration. Anyone who studies sales and global marketshare throughout the year knows that the secret to success is not necessarily how you start, but how you end. 83.2 million smartphones shipped in Q1 is a stellar achievement for any tech company. Any. Tech. Company. And Motorola, LG, HTC, Sony, Huawei, Xiaomi, and other Android manufacturers could only dream of having Samsung’s success.
-So, what’s the problem with tech analysts and pro-Apple media? They’re just scared ‘cause Samsung’s made a comeback. Don’t worry, though; if you hang around in the tech world long enough, you’ll see that criticizing Samsung is what the critics do around the office when they run out of productive itinerary. Unfortunately for the tech analysts and media, Samsung’s got the right numbers to put it back at the top.
-Despite the numbers they want you to see, there’s only one set that matters.