Apple creeps closer to Samsung in global smartphone market share

Apple creeps closer to Samsung in global smartphone market share:

During the second quarter, Apple cut into Samsung's lead in the battle for global smartphone market share. The latest numbers have been released by Strategy Analytics, and they show that Apple gained 4.5 percentage points on Samsung from April through June. Make no mistake about it though, Samsung still leads the way with 20.5% of smartphone shipments during the period. But that number seems to decline each quarter, and Apple now trails its rival by only 9.6 percentage points.



While Samsung shipped 89 million phones for the quarter, a 7% decline from the 95 million it shipped during last ...