IDC: The iPhone is once again the world’s No. 1 smartphone – Regained the spot that it took from Nokia in June and gave up to Samsung in September
CNN
It will come as no surprise to Apple (AAPL) watchers that the company sold 37 million iPhones last quarter. Tim Cook reported that number two weeks ago.
Getting comparable figures from Apple’s competitors is a different matter, and that’s where companies like IDCcome in. Samsung, for example, used to report only the number of mobile phones it shipped — which is not the same as selling them — and in 2011 it stopped sharing even that.