Samsung Reaches Biggest Smartphone Lead Over Apple Since First iPhone Launched In 2007

In all the talk of smartphone saturation, Samsung is gradually pulling ahead of arch rival Apple AAPL -0.39%. New industry figures from Strategy Analytics show that Samsung shipped 2.4 times more smartphones worldwide than Apple in the second quarter, up from 1.9 times in the first quarter of 2013 and the second quarter last year, and from 1.3 times in the first quarter of 2012. It also represents Samsung’s biggest ever lead over Apple on smartphone shipments since the first iPhone launched in early 2007.

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