Apple Vs Samsung: Apple Recaptures Top Smartphone Crown From Samsung

Watch out... Android lovers and Apple haters are going to be mad as hell and on the loose after learning that Samsung's reign as the world's top smartphone maker has come to an abrupt end, as Apple has gone on to reclaim the top spot, which Samsung briefly held at the end of 2011.

Samsung, the South Korean copy cat giant, is the world's largest Android manufacturer and accounts for most of the platforms growth . HTC, Motorola and other Android OEMs have been suffering as Samsung and Apple successfully duke it out for supremacy in the smartphone arena. Motorola, in fact, just recently posted an $80 million dollar loss as it saw the sales of its phones, and especially of its tablets, decline significantly, as problems also continue to plague HTC.

Both Samsung and Apple have been wrapped up in a series of legal battles revolving around patent issues, with Samsung just receiving another set back in its fight with Apple in my favorite country, good old Germany, just this week.

In conclusion, Apple has now not only reclaimed the title of being the world's largest maker of smartphones, but it is now believed that it accounts for up to eight percent of all global mobile phone sales period, including for all phone categories, smart and dumb phones alike.

And that's my 2 cents on this stormy Friday, January 26, 2012

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Business Revenues: The iPhone Is Now Bigger Than Microsoft!

Ok, now we all know, you know, that Microsoft is one hell of a big business, with big, big revenues, like some $20 billion dollars big in the past three months alone.

And yes, we all know how big Windows is, how big Microsoft's Office is, and just how big the Xbox is, etc., etc., but guess what we didn't know?

What we didn't know was was this, ...... just how small Microsoft's big, big revenues actually are when we compare them to one little wee device.... the iPhone, a device who's revenues are now way bigger than for all of Microsoft revenues combined...... yes, including for all of the products listed above!

Whoa... are you kidding me, you might ask?

Nope, not at all.

As Joe Wilcox recently discovered , buried within Apple's recent and mammoth quarter results was the astounding fact that the little, itty, bitty iPhone, and all by its little old lonesome self, now generates billions of dollars more revenue than for all of Microsoft's products combined..... some $24 billion plus for the iPhone as compared to a little over $20 billion for Microsoft's and its many products!

For crying out pizza with anchovies and mustard sauce, in conclusion, I must say I find that about as mind blowing as any mind-bending drug out there, and like did anyone see that coming? I sure as hell didn't, and with rumors of the iPhone 5, complete with a larger screen, coming out as soon as this very summer, I can only imagine what's going to happen next.

And that's my 2 cents 4 this mild and sunny Thursday, January 26, 2012

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