{"id":743644,"date":"2013-03-26T20:20:41","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T00:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=397539"},"modified":"2013-03-26T20:20:41","modified_gmt":"2013-03-27T00:20:41","slug":"iphone-5-ipad-mini-help-apple-close-gap-with-samsung-in-total-connected-device-shipments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/743644","title":{"rendered":"iPhone 5, iPad mini help Apple close gap with Samsung in total connected device shipments"},"content":{"rendered":"<center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/26\/apple-samsung-connected-device-shipments-397539\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"650\" height=\"580\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/11\/ipad-mini-review-5.jpg?w=650&#038;h=580&#038;crop=1&#038;resize=650%2C580\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Apple Samsung Connected Device\" title=\"iPad mini, iPhone 5\" \/><\/a><\/center>Samsung (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=005930.KS&amp;ql=0\">005930<\/a>) is still the world's leader in smartphone, tablet and PC shipments, but two recent big-name product launches are helping <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/apple\">Apple<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=aapl\">AAPL<\/a>) quickly close the gap. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idc.com\/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS24037713#.UVGp4OvwJJg\">IDC's latest data on \"smart connected device\" shipments<\/a> \u2014 that is, total shipments for PCs, tablets and smartphones \u2014 show that Apple accounted for 20.3% of all shipments in the fourth quarter of 2012, just below <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/samsung\">Samsung's<\/a> 21.2% share of total shipments. IDC says that Apple's surge resulted from a \"combination of Apple's iPhone 5 and iPad mini,\" which shouldn't be surprising given that most reports have <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/04\/iphone-5-sales-2013-canaccord-359306\/\">shown both are selling very well<\/a>. The big question is how long Apple will keep pace with Samsung once the company releases the Galaxy S 4 next month, especially since <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/02\/14\/galaxy-s-iv-sales-estimates-327242\/\">Samsung has reportedly set a lofty goal of selling 100 million units of its new flagship smartphone<\/a>.<img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/yqt7BTrgyNs\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung (005930) is still the world&#8217;s leader in smartphone, tablet and PC shipments, but two recent big-name product launches are helping Apple (AAPL) quickly close the gap. IDC&#8217;s latest data on &#8220;smart connected device&#8221; shipments \u2014 that is, total shipments for PCs, tablets and smartphones \u2014 show that Apple accounted for 20.3% of all shipments [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4809,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-743644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-37sg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4809"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}