Numbers of phone sales is all well and good. . . but in the quarter immediately preceding this one, Apple and Samsung took home 108% of all Cellular phone handset profits. . . and they, along with Xiaomi of China, were the only 3 Cellular phone manufacturers who made any profits at all. Xiaomi (pronounced Showme) made all of $7 million for the entire quarter, not even a blip. All 223 other Android Cell phone makers posted loses! Apple took home 87% of the profits and Samsung 21% (the over 108% is the result of the loses posted by the others).
This quarter, with the HUGE increases by Apple, and the 27% decrease in profits by Samsung, I would not be surprised to see Apple claiming 95% of the profits of the industry for the quarter!
As for market share, Apple is grabbing market share as well. . . even claiming 33% Samsung's home market in South Korea! Apple is the number one selling cellular phone in China.
Losses of income/revenue of ‘no name’ Android phone businesses - does not mean they are not making, shipping and selling phones by the tens of thousands. If one takes the combined number of ‘no name’ sales - the number of units shipped is quite considerable. South East Asian Countries are awash in low name / no name brands... There will likely be a period where these companies totally fail from not making a profit... but in the mean time they are taking sales from the top names...shipping phones to buying customers.
I am in Thailand and there are thousands of small shops selling phones ... and only a few are top name brands. They sell because it is what South East Asians can afford. I have an iMobile - iStyle Android ... cost just over a 100 bucks ... that is a lot of money for an Asian. 65 million people in Thailand and more than half have a mobile phone as they call them... Only a small percentage have Samsung or Apple.