Report: Apple eating into Samsung’s market share in South Korea
Is Samsung losing its sheen even in its home market, in addition to seeing reduced sales in the rest of the world? The latest report by Counterpoint Research certainly claims so – according to the report, Apple managed to see a noticeable increase in market share in South Korea in the October-November period in 2014, while Samsung saw its share plummet. Apple apparently had a record-breaking 33 percent share of the market, no doubt thanks to the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, both of which feature larger screens than previous iPhones and hence might have seen increased consumer interest as a result.
According to the report, this is the first time that a foreign company has earned more than 20 percent market share in South Korea. Samsung retained the top position with a 46 percent market share, but as the graph below shows, the company’s performance actually reduced from previous months. That’s no doubt a cause of worry for the Korean manufacturer, but it’s likely this spurt of growth for Apple came because of the larger iPhones, and that Samsung might manage to get back on a upward trajectory in the coming months.
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There are MULTIPLE reasons why Apple is taking over the world. Being iPhones’ user for about 7 years, last year I bought Galaxy S5 and I DEEPLY REGRET it. Samsung is No Where Near Apple. Bad Hardware, Bad Software, Resource hogging touch wiz and NO customer Support. They only know how to make 100 new phones a year only to discontinue their production after horrendous super low sales numbers (after a few weeks).
I’ve got to colleagues that upgraded from iphone 5 to galaxy s5 and they seem to be very happy. One of them even told me that she couldn’t wait for the moment she could ditch her iphone. My wife is a massive apple fan and she is not happy with her iphone 5 at all.I compared it with my s3 and it’s a good phone no doubts but I wouldn’t change my s3 for it, NO WAY!!!
I can do with galaxy s4 everything I need with phone so why should I regret for having it?
Sorry, I meant to write “two colleagues”
There’s so much goodness about Samsung phones. All they need is a more responsive, less bloaty, easily upgradeable touchwiz and hardware that looks a little better without loosing the replaceable battery and expandable memory. And the waterproofing. Basically, if the rumours on the Galaxy S6 are right, they’re doing everything wrong.