Here we got a story about Apple beating Samsung in a particular category for the first time since

2016

Which I don't know if you've been keeping track. That's like five years ago

Five years

Wow, that feels crazy to say but that's a while ago 2016. It doesn't feel like that long ago when you say it

When you do the subtraction when you do some quick maths on that right that's been a little that's a little bit

Apple sold almost 80 million phones in q4 2020. It's the first time Apple has beaten Samsung in q4 2020 sales

Since 2016 now it's important to note you got to you got to Apple fans

They're celebrating at the moment will you do?

It's important to note that if we look at the whole year phase then Samsung still

Still beats Apple sure, but it's a very specific region here where they normally don't do such a thing and they did

And this isn't a time where smartphones sales were kind of a little bit sluggish for a lot of the marketplace as you know you've been following the marketplace

Companies like Huawei sort of almost dipped out completely because of all the restrictions and things like this, but also will you had

particularly in a flagship category

You had these high price points mixed with

Global economic unknowns and pandemics and so forth

Maybe you're not buying a smartphone

Apparently Apple sold 79.94 million during that fourth quarter while Samsung only managed to sell 62 only

Only 62.17 million units

Samsung did not release new flagship phones that quarter. That's another important thing to mention

They don't follow the same cycle the same time patterns for new releases which of course Apple was helped by such a thing

But again going back to 2016. It doesn't seem to impact or effects

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