Samsung sold 40 million smartphones in the first quarter against Apple's 32-33 million according to ACI Research analyst Edward Zabitsky. [via Forbes]
It gets worst for Apple, according to Zabitsky, because Samsung internally manufactures $60-$80 worth of the components that go into its smartphones, while Apple manufactures just $25 worth.
Ironically, Apple buys a lot of its smartphone components, including memory chips and displays, from Samsung.
"Samsung's internally sourced displays, processors, and memory require a low incremental cost to produce," says Zabitsky.
The competition from Samsung is poised to intensify with the release May 3 of the Galaxy S3.
Samsung's new flagship smartphone is expected to feature an a Exynos 4412 quad-core processor, a low power retina quality AMOLED display and a LTE/CDMA baseband processor, all internally manufactured.
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