Apple surpasses Samsung as the largest smartphone maker in the world – Economíahoy.mx

EconomíaHoy.mx – 4:57 – 3/02/2017

• Apple sold 78,3 million in the last quarter; Samsung, 77.5 million

Apple closed the past year with more smartphones sold than Samsung in the fourth quarter, this represents a change in the leadership of the world ranking of manufacturers. In that relay at the summit has influenced the improvement of the business performance of Apple and the fiasco of Samsung with its Note 7, the device removed from the market because of the problems with their batteries flamígeras. According to the data of Strategy Analytics, the California company sold 78,3 million iPhones, compared to 77.5 million that garnered the multinational south Korean.

“This was the best performance of the iPhone for more than a year, as Apple capitalized on the recent errors of Samsung”, explained Neil Mawston, executive director at Strategy Analytics. Apple recorded a net profit of 17.891 million in the first quarter of its fiscal year 2017, a 2.6% less than in the same period of the previous year, when he managed to 18.361 million.

Apple introduced this past Tuesday the results of the last quarter of last year, a period in which revenue rose to 78.351 millions of dollars.

For its part, technology company, finland’s Nokia reported a net loss of 912 million euros in 2016, in front of 1,194 million earned in the prior year, for the purchase of his rival franco-american Alcatel-Lucent at the beginning of the year, said yesterday the company.

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