{"id":37134,"date":"2013-05-04T12:09:06","date_gmt":"2013-05-04T10:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=37134"},"modified":"2013-05-06T09:23:51","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T07:23:51","slug":"samsung-and-apple-heading-in-different-directions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/37134\/samsung-and-apple-heading-in-different-directions\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung and Apple heading in different directions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An estimated 405 million handsets, including 197 million smartphones, were shipped in the first quarter of 2013, according to market intelligence firm ABI Research<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Smartphone shipments grew 38% year-over-year (YoY) while feature phone shipments declined 5.2% YoY. Shipments of all handsets grew 12% YoY in the first quarter thanks to the continued strength of the smartphone market, which achieved an all-time high of 49% shipment penetration.<\/p>\n

\u201cWorldwide handset and smartphone shipments exhibited classic Q1 softness,\u201d said senior analyst Michael Morgan<\/a>. \u201cSamsung<\/a> accomplished strong smartphone growth while Apple<\/a> dismissed a troubling mix of slowed growth and declining margins as a sign that the older iPhone 4S was in high demand.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nokia<\/a> handset shipments plummeted to 62 million in Q1 with smartphone shipments at a 5-year low of 6.1 million.<\/p>\n

Considering market and OEM specific conditions, BlackBerry<\/a> delivered a respectable 6 million shipments, with 1 million coming from the launch of BlackBerry 10-based devices.<\/p>\n

Despite HTC<\/a>\u2019s well-designed ONE devices, shipments continued to decline 37% YoY to 4.8 million. LG continued its revival with 10.3 million smartphone shipments and 16.2 million handset shipments.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe last time a major smartphone OEM showed a trend of decreasing margins combined with falling ASPs and slowing growth, BlackBerry was still on the favorable side of a large market share and revenue drop,\u201d added senior practice director Jeff Orr.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith major product announcements teased for Q3, Apple risks falling behind the innovation curve unless the next iPhone is more revolutionary than evolutionary.\u201d<\/p>\n

More on mobile handsets<\/h3>\n

Smartphones versus feature phones<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Steepest PC market decline yet for MEA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Is demand for Apple drying up?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Tablet sales are booming<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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