Apple may have dethroned Samsung as the world's biggest smartphone manufacturer

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Apple's stellar earnings report from Wednesday mostly revolved around one fascinating number: the 74.5 million iPhones sold in the December quarter

It not only propelled Apple's profit to $18 billion — the biggest quarterly profit posted by any company, ever — but also may have dethroned Samsung as the biggest smartphone manufacturer in the world.

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Samsung did not publicly disclose the number of smartphones sold in the quarter, so this statistic hasn't been confirmed. The South Korean company did say on Thursday, however, that it sold 95 million handsets in Q4, 70% of which of which were smartphones (that's 71 to 76 million). Read more...

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