Apple’s ‘cool’ versus Samsung muscle

Its products may not, as one British judge put it, be as “cool” as bitter rival Apple’s, but Samsung Electronics is speeding away from the iconic iPhone maker in the race for the global smartphone market.

The South Korean giant first took Apple’s smartphone top spot in the third quarter of last year, racking up a 20 per cent slice of worldwide sales, compared to Apple’s 14.5 per cent, according to telecom research firm IDC.

Jump ahead a year to the just-finished third quarter of this year and Samsung’s share has surged to 31.3 per cent, with Apple on 15 per cent.

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