3 months ago, Apple stunned the whole world by announcing that it sold no less than 20 million smartphones in a single fiscal quarter. For Apple, we were talking about a record then, and thanks to Apple, it became the largest smartphone manufacturer in the world, surpassing Nokia for the first time in history. The other day, the Apple company announced that it sold 17.1 million smartphones in the last fiscal quarter and blamed the weak sales on the rumors about the launch of a possible iPhone 5 terminal.
Today we find out that Samsung would be delivered 20 million smartphones to its partners from all over the world, the figure being 3 million units higher than in the case of Apple. Theoretically, this difference should rank Samsung as the largest smartphone manufacturer in the world, right? The situation might be a little different because the information does not say how many units he actually sold, but says that he delivered 20 million to his partners. Considering that both companies use different terms for cataloging these "sales", it is difficult to say whether in reality Samsung has surpassed Apple or not.
The information is for now just estimates made by American analysts and we all know how well they guess what the big companies are going to announce, so for now Apple remains on the 1st place, a place it might lose next week when Samsung announces its financial results.
