The Internet has been buzzing recently on the news that Samsung has overtaken Apple as the worlds leading smartphone vendor. The problem is, there are no numbers to actually back up the claim.
Here’s
an example of how it’s being reported. From GigaOM:
Samsung
had a very strong quarter, according to numbers it revealed on Friday to
investors. Its shipments (which it doesn’t provide specific numbers for) jumped
more than 40 percent during the third quarter. Strategy Analytics estimates
that amounts to total sales of nearly 28 million devices, while Apple moved 17
million during the same period.