Comments on: LG Overtakes Apple To Claim Second Place In U.S. Phone Market Share [Report]

By: Melissa Peterson

Melissa Peterson — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 07:24:00 +0000

I think he was talking about feature phones.

By: Alfiejr

Alfiejr — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 18:10:00 +0000

this is the stupidest “report” yet in what has been a month of incredibly stupid web stories about Apple etc.

the “source” is some outfit in Korea, home of LG. any website that picks this trash up for repost is guilty of the most flagrant hit whoring.

oh i see, it’s a Cultof joke.

By: Seltox

Seltox — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 09:12:00 +0000

Didn’t read, or didn’t understand the article?

They sold 1,000,000 of their Optimus G. This was mentioned because it’s the only specific recent sales figures for them. As is also pressed, the Optimus G is unlikely to be the phone that’ getting them ahead, and it is probably the Google Nexus 4, which is in short supply compared to the demand.

Please, make an attempt to understand the content before making a judgement. At least ask questions for clarification if you can’t make sense – there’s nothing wrong with asking questions, it’s how we all learn.

By: Richard Liu

Richard Liu — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 01:29:00 +0000

Source please. The Counterpoint Research’s website does not offer any information related to this report. Their latest report about handset market is Oct. 2012.

I guess it’s trustable that LG and Apple is very close and it really doesn’t that important who takes the 2nd position, but the number is hard to believe. According to comScore’s survey of U.S. overall mobile phone (both smart and non-smart) market share over the holiday season, Samsung takes 26.5%, Apple takes 18.1%, while LG takes 17.8%.

I know that the statistic result would be affected by the way they took samples, but the difference between two reports are too large to be explained by sampling miss. We’re talking a market with the scale of 53% of United States population, which means the difference of these two report is 15M units, That difference is ridiculous, since it took LG three months to reach the 1M sales mark of their Optimus G.

So, what does that mean ? Either comScore is BSing, or Counterpoint’s BSing, or they are both (along with all the other “Analysts”) are BSing.

Personally I’d believe the third option.

By: Uther_Pendragon

Uther_Pendragon — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 01:13:00 +0000

>But when you take old-fashioned feature phones into account, the situation looks a little different.

That would almost be relevant if Apple made dumb phones. Who wins if you include land line phones? How about CB and HAM radios? Telegraphs? Loud talkers?

By: Gary Dauphin

Gary Dauphin — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 22:51:00 +0000

I know numbers never lie, but I just find this hard to believe. While I see Apple and Samsung phones everywhere, I have never met anyone with an LG phone. Never. That’s not to say they aren’t selling at all, but it is odd I have never run into anyone with one.

Wait until Wednesday when the iPhone numbers are released by Apple, and I think many will be surprised by the large number.

That being said, Apple better get off its A$$ and start putting out more and better products, because the competition is coming up quick.

By: Volodoscope

Volodoscope — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 20:49:00 +0000

They’re not cheap though. Nexus 4 is $349. Unless you’re talking about on contract, which only US Markets follow. Most of the world pays full price for smartphones.

By: Laurence Konig

Laurence Konig — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 20:39:00 +0000

bs. sell a million phones and take lead , wtf….

By: Mark Langston

Mark Langston — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 18:39:00 +0000

The title of the article is “LG Overtakes Apple” but then ends with “this does not mean LG’s smartphones have outsold Apple’s smartphones”.

Sooo…?

By: Christian Zawadzki

Christian Zawadzki — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 17:20:00 +0000

People keep buying shit phones because they’re cheap, simple as that.