
So here we are: Samsung dominates the smartphone market created by Apple. Samsung = 27.8 millions units sold last quarter with 23.8% market share and counting VS Apple’s 14.6% and decreasing.
Another bad story for Apple in this end of 2011, is the legal path against Samsung. Turns out it’s not as thermonuclear as Steve Jobs dreamed it.
In Germany, Apple lost VS Motorola for 18 Motorola patents infringement on the iPhone, iPad, Macs, MobileMe and the App Store. Nothing more, nothing less.
In Australia and the US, Samsung is now allowed to sell it’s best seller Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 right on time for the Xmas rush.
And feature wise speaking, the iPhone 5 won’t be anything else in 2012 than a Samsung Galaxy SII copycat, but 11 months late.
In terms of industrialization, Samsung also wins everywhere as they sell smartphones for all market segments from low to high end, under multiple OSes (Android, Windows Phone, Bada), and are also a core provider in mobiles chips and processors, including for Apple (A4 and A5).
So here we are with Apple facing again it’s fate: being a profitable high-end niche brand, but never a market leader in the long run.
Success for Apple was always an epiphenomenon.