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It’s been a week of contrasts for two of tech’s biggest players.
Last Wednesday Apple not only posted record sales of iPhones, smashing the 74 million mark in the three months from October to December.
It also managed to make a net profit of £12 billion, the biggest quarterly profit in global corporate history.
Meanwhile, its big name rival Samsung revealed that earnings from its smartphones and mobile division were down by 62% year on year.
While the Korean company did not say how many phones and tablets it had sold, it did confirm that its numbers were down compared to 2013.
This is all such a far cry from two years ago, when Samsung was in the ascendency and Apple’s ability to innovate was being called into question.
The Korean giant was sticking it to Apple on the shop floor and in the courtroom, turning itself into the world’s biggest mobile-maker and churning out new devices at an unerring rate.
But complacency, not to mention defeat in US courts and punishing fines over patent infringements, has left Samsung reeling.
In emerging markets, local suppliers are killing Samsung with their cheaper devices and similar services.
At the top end, Apple’s superior design quality and its decision to finally boost the size of its iPhones, coupled with Samsung’s distinctly average releases in the last 12 months, have put the squeeze on too.
Samsung is now in real danger of losing its place as the world’s premier phone manufacturer.
Its experiment with its own Tizen operating system seems doomed, meaning its reliance on Google’s Android is unlikely to end any time soon.
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