Let`s look around at the recent news:
"The first quarter of 2013 has proven to be successful for Samsung as it sold a record number of smartphones in China. .... Samsung sold 12.5 million smartphones in China during the first three months of this year.
The number of smartphones sold will likely break Samsung`s total of smartphones sold last year of 30.06 million...... Apple, meanwhile, placed sixth. The Cupertino-based organization sold 6.1 million units in China.
http://www.latinospost.com/articles...msung-sales-2013-sold-record-12-5-million.htm
hmmm-m ... that`s not it .....
"Apple has elicited a lot of hand-wringing by investors and fans alike lately, even as its chief competition Samsung seems to be prompting nothing but applause. Turns out selling a wider variety of phones and tablets is a good strategy after all.
While Apple was on its way to the company’s first profit decline in almost a decade during the first three months of the year, Samsung’s net profit grew 42 percent in the same period to 7.2 trillion won – about $6.5 billion U.S. from 5 trillion won a year earlier."
https://terb.cc/vbulletin/showthread.php?437483-Samsung-Shares-Loses-12-4-Billion
No ... that`s not it .....
"It’s looking ominous in the smartphone market with South Korea’s Samsung Electronics and LG both increasing market share in the first quarter of 2013, according to UK-based researchers Juniper. Taking Juniper’s research alongside data from IDC it looks as though
Samsung now has almost double Apple‘s market share in smartphones."
http://www.forbes.com/sites/haydnsh...ses-to-nearly-double-apples-smartphone-sales/
Hmmm-m .... where is the headline that indicates Samsung has joined Apple in the financial toilet... got to make Apple guys feel good about backing the loser horse by shooting the one in front ...
keep looking .. got to help those sad Apple fans .....
"Ironically, the phone is selling faster and in higher numbers than the previous gen Galaxy S3 did, yet because expectations were set too high, it resulted in a stock drop. It`s amazing what a large effect the psychology of investors can have on the movement of funds in this global economy....
In the face of this "disappointment," investor`s have dumped some of their shares of Samsung stock, bringing it down by 6.2%."
http://www.droidforums.net/forum/an...amsung-s-stock-valuation-12-billion-down.html
Okay ... maybe it isn`t quite the 40% drop Apple has dropped in 6 months but for an Apple fan ... any little item that distracts them from their own misery has to help.
Congratulations Apple fans ! Finally a reason to smile (not any Apple success but another`s stumble - good enough!) :Cry:
