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iPhone 5 release date as Apple $ points to homebrew cell network

It’s a tale of two cash positions as Apple prepares to unleash the iPhone 5 (learn more about its release date) on the world with its release date serving as a backdrop for the real Apple story: the company has $76 billion in cash on hand, and while Steve Jobs says he’s merely “keeping the powder dry,” there’s another shoe just waiting to drop. Instead of blowing money on over-marketing its products, or executing buyouts of its competitors and partners, Apple is instead planning on using some of that cash for more than a rainy day. There’s something big coming, and only Jobs knows what it is. But Apple’s cash on hand is significant for another reason: for the moment, thanks to the artificially created “budget crisis” which sees John Boehner and his posse trying to hijack the federal government by cutting off its funding, the United States only has a mere $74 in cash on hand. That’s right: Apple has more cash in its warchest than President Obama currently has in his.

And no, Apple is not planning to buy the United States in a leveraged buyout. But it highlights just what kind of absurd position the company is in upon the eve of the iPhone 5. What is Jobs thinking? This kind of cash means Apple can stick around forever, and that has to be on his mind to an extent. After all, if he hadn’t returned to Apple when he did in the late nineties, it wouldn’t still exist. With this kind of moola on hand, Apple can remain a market force long after Jobs is gone, even if he is fortunate enough to live a full-length life after his series of health issues. But there’s got to be more to it than that. Sure, Apple in the Jobs 2.0 era has been overwhelmingly fiscally conservative even as it’s been aggressive on the innovation front, changing up its most popular products every year even when they’re dominating their respective markets so thoroughly that most other companies would stand still until the tide began to change. It’s that aggression, however, which suggests that Jobs has more specific plans for that cash than he’s letting on. And with the iPhone being the only one of Apple’s major product categories which is currently not dominating its respective market (besides the Mac, which lost its marketshare battle two decades ago after Jobs was ousted from the company), the launch of the iPhone 5 seems the perfect offensive for Jobs to strike out and correct that unusual imbalance…

There’s the iPod, which still has most of the MP3 player market a decade after having been introduced. There’s the iTunes Store, which own the digital music industry despite cheaper prices on AmazonMP3, and in fact dominates thoroughly that its outpaces physical CD sales. There’s the iPad, which has most of the tablet market despite an abundance of Android based competitors. And then there’s the iPhone, the first iOS device to come to market, and it doesn’t even have as much as half of the smartphone market. BlackBerry is dying, Palm is gone, HP and Microsoft are getting nowhere. But people are buying Android in abundance despite the fact that outside of the geekdom actually wants one. And that leaves Jobs with a quandary as he prepares to assign a release date to the iPhone 5.

The ill-fated iPhone exclusivity deal reached with AT&T back in 2007 is of course entirely to blame, and it’s easily the biggest mistake of Apple’s second Jobs era (similar exclusivity deals in other nations compounded the problem and made it a worldwide mistake). The day the original iPhone was introduced, the majority of Americans vowed never to buy one until it arrived on their preferred carrier, and even as AT&T saw unprecedented growth thanks to people switching carriers to get to the iPhone, the majority of those who swore they’d hold out ended up doing exactly that. Fast forward four years, with Apple having desperately clawed itself out of one of the worst five year deals in history a little more than a year early, and now the company faces a landscape in which the Linux-based, geek-oriented, widely disliked, highly fragmented, generally dysfunctional Android platform has managed to assume many or most of those would-be iPhone sales by positioning itself on the other three major carriers in a successful attempt to capture the hordes of crumbs which have fallen its way. And now a platform which would have had almost literally zero sell-though outside of geek circles is instead a major iPhone competitor as Apple unleashes the iPhone 5. Steve Jobs has more cash in his company wallet than the United States of America has in its bank account, and yet what can he do to get Apple out of this hole he dug himself four years ago?

Buy a carrier and set up iPhone 5 shop on it, some circles would say. But that would work about as well as the time Pepsi started buying up fast food franchises like Pizza Hut and KFC and Taco Bell in order to ensure that they switched to Pepsi products. Technically it worked. But competing fast food chains began viewing Pepsi as a competitor and, not wanting to do business with their competition, began switching to Coke. Pepsi ended up having to spin off the food chains just to save itself. Similarly, if Apple were to buy Sprint (or steal T-Mobile away before AT&T can acquire it), Verizon and AT&T would then view Apple as a competitor. Even though they’d continue carrying the iPhone 5 out of necessity, they’d be much less likely to promote it. Instead they’d steer their customers toward Android, which is exactly how Apple got into this iPhone marketshare mess in the first place. What Apple needs, instead, is the opposite.

Apple needs indirect control over both AT&T and Verizon, so as to ensure both carriers give the iPhone 5 its due. As it stands, salesgeeks in carrier retail stores routinely tell one lie about the iPhone after another in a desperate personal bid to steer would-be iPhone buyers toward Android instead, and this goes on whether it’s the carrier’s policy to favor Android or not. What Apple needs is for these salesgeeks to be informed that they’ll be fired if such behavior continues. But a memo isn’t enough. Instead, Steve Jobs needs to be running these carriers. Because it’s not just about getting a customer to buy an iPhone 5. It’s about molding the carriers such that they offer an Apple-like experience to customers, or at least an acceptable one, as opposed to the disastrous experiences which U.S. consumers are routinely subjected to regardless of which carrier they pick their poison from.\

What Jobs really needs government regulation in the U.S. analogous to that of other civilized nations. As it stands, Verizon and AT&T can and do literally anything they want, no matter how heinous; most of it’s legal and the rest isn’t enforced. Networks are barely there because unlike other nations which regulate minimum number of towers per population density, U.S. carriers simply build a fraction of what they should. And they get away with because, despite all U.S. carriers offering a substandard experience which would be considered a joke by anyone in any other nation, Americans are almost perversely loyal to whichever carrier they’ve chosen. That leads back to them choosing to remain with Verizon and its marginally better substandard network and get stuck with an Android phone they hate rather than moving to AT&T with its marginally worse network and the iPhone they’ve wanted all along. But while Jobs can’t change that kind of mentally handicapped behavior on the part of consumers, can he change the nature of the carriers?

Short of getting the law changed (former President-elect Al Gore is on Apple’s board of directors), Jobs may find himself in the position of needing to own all of the carriers. Not that Apple could buy both Verizon and AT&T in terms of cash or legality, nor would it want to as it would need to continue to provide cellular service to competing phones. Instead, Apple may ultimately need to own a minority stake in each of the major carriers. This would give Jobs unofficial influence on all of them, and would allow him to work from within to attempt to simultaneously get the carriers to terminate the fraudulent salesgeeks while also improving the overall network experience. Then again, Jobs had an exclusive contract with AT&T for years which legally gave him influence over the quality of AT&T’s network, and yet a lot of good it did him. Then again, ownership is a different beast than partnership. For instance, through the merger with Pixar, of which Jobs personally owned approximately three-fourths, he now owns enough of a minority stake in Disney that he can call the shots over there if and when he chooses.

But does Jobs really want to get that deeply involved with cesspool entities like Verizon, AT&T, and Sprint just to get the iPhone 5 experience up to where he wants it? After all, Jobs has made no bones about the fact that he sees the iPad as the future, and smartphones are merely pocket-sized extensions of the motif. Still, the future of the iPad is deeply tied to the future of mobile data networks, as the current wifi-only iPad model is mostly a brick once it leaves the house, and accordingly, the percentage of 3G-based iPad sales has risen significantly as users have figured that out. Would Apple dare build its own mobile network for the iPad? It would almost have to be an iPhone network as well, which would put Apple back in the position of competing with the carriers who have the power to fraudulently steer customers to Android. Or is Jobs gambling that the current consumer obsession with remaining carrier-loyal will eventually fade, even as the negative hands-on experiences with Android will cause the platform to collapse under its own weight?

That’s quite the pair of gambles. Studies show the vast majority of current Android users already having decided not to buy another Android phone. But the idea of getting the public to let go of their Stockholm Syndrome-like loyalty to the abuse they receive from their current carrier seems another matter. Current iPhone users would be willing to switch to an Apple-owned cellular network in droves. But getting those who still haven’t found their way to the iPhone to do so could become a greater challenge. Then again, if Apple begins advertising that it’s offering the first U.S. cellular network which doesn’t suck, it may shock consumers into deciding that they’ve indeed had enough abuse and are ready to move if it means moving to an Apple-owned carrier. But if Apple has been secretly building its own 4G LTE nationwide network to coincide with the iPhone 5 release date, then no one’s gotten a whiff of it yet and it would be one of the best-kept secrets in Apple history. Here’s more on the iPhone 5.

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Apple's Steve Jobs still on leave but not really gone

In one of the most curious vanishing acts in American corporate history, AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs remains on what is now the longest of his three medical leaves, popping up in public on the rare occasion, reportedly keeping an opaque remote control over major decisions, but also prompting questions as Apple keeps its trademark veil of secrecy drawn tight over its iconic leader's status.

It's now been more than six months since Jobs, often considered not only the face but the heart and soul of Apple, has been gone. Yet he's not really gone at all, though by one account he's less involved in micromanaging every aspect of the business.

With two major public outings to introduce the iPad2 and iCloud, and cameo appearances at both a private Woodside dinner with President Obama and fellow tech titans and a Cupertino city council meeting last month to unveil plans for Apple's new headquarters, Jobs slips tantalizingly in and out of public view.

And the markets don't seem to care either way. Under the direction of chief operating officer Tim Cook, Apple stock has soared to record highs as its iPhone, iPad and other products enjoy spectacular success around the world.

"Apple's dealing with this situation in their own unique manner,'' says Joel Achramowicz, an analyst with Blaylock Robert Van LLC. Cook "is the operating executive, but Steve Jobs is still involved. It's an unconventional approach. With other companies, you might expect the board to require the CEO to take a true and complete leave of absence. Not here. But then, Apple's just being Apple.''

When Jobs stepped away last January from day-to-day management, this third leave in the past decade came cloaked with far more intrigue than the previous breaks -- a two-and-a-half month leave in 2004 to undergo surgery for a rare form of pancreatic cancer, and a six-month leave in January 2009 for what turned out to be a liver transplant later that spring. Apple stock shares rose and fell accordingly, as if they were tied to the CEO's prognosis.

This time, though, the leave was open-ended, begging questions about whether the man worshipped by legions of fanboys might not be coming back at all and what that might mean to Apple's future. Job's six-sentence letter to employees didn't help clarify matters. Saying only that he would continue as CEO and "be involved in major strategic decisions for the company," Jobs added, "I love Apple so much and hope to be back as soon as I can."

Asked about Jobs on Thursday, Apple spokesman Steve Dowling said simply that "Steve is on medical leave and as we have previously said he continues to be involved in major strategic decisions.''

Six months after Jobs's 2009 departure, a Memphis hospital confirmed he'd undergone a liver transplant. Now, with Jobs once again a half-year into a medical leave, speculation swirls. Even in his absence, the CEO seems to be around every corner -- an unconfirmed sighting of Jobs at a Palo Alto sushi spot last spring; tabloid pictures outside the Stanford Cancer Center; an email to the Wall Street Journal from Jobs calling its report of CEO succession planning by Apple board members "hogwash.''

But perhaps because of Apple's recent and jaw-dropping performance under the management team Jobs had put into place, many observers say the CEO's absence, at least for now, is not having any noticeable impact at all on the tech powerhouse he helped build.

"I don't think you can draw too much from the length of the absence,'' said analyst Tim Bajarin with Creative Strategies. "We saw him at the Worldwide Developers conference in June and to me he looked the same as he did in March when he introduced the iPad 2. I think the process he's going through is recuperative, which means he probably needs to be more at home and less physically active. But I don't believe that's diminished his role in any way.''

Bajarin talks regularly with upper management at Apple and the impression he gets from those conversations is that while Jobs does not physically punch in every day at 1 Infinite Loop, he's virtually there much of the time.

"They tell me he calls in regularly, he talks to Tim, he talks to the top guys, he talks about the Apple Stores,'' said Bajarin. "But while he used to micromanage everything in ways that most CEOs would not, right down to issues with the company cafeteria, the big change with his latest leave is that there's less micromanagment and more management of his executive team and the big-picture issues.''

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Why Steve Jobs Would Be a Better President Than Obama

Just as congress and the president are bickering over raising the federal debt ceiling, news comes from the BBC that Apple has a larger cash reserve than the United States of America (Apple has $76.4 billion, the U.S. has $73.7 billion).

So we are going to do what any sensible person looking at these two stories would do. We are going to suggest that Steve Jobs run for president. We predict not only that will he be better at the job than Barack Obama, but that he will be the greatest U.S. president we have ever seen.

Why on Earth would we suggest such an outrageous change of command? After all, Steve Jobs has never run for public office. But when you look at the positives he would bring to the country, it’s impossible to deny that he would make mincemeat of what our current commander-in-chief has done.

He’s an A**hole

For most politicians, no matter what they claim to stand for or what they promise in campaigns, their loyalties lie first and foremost with their own power. When push comes to shove, they will do what will get them in power, and then they will do what will keep them in power.

Yet they are always pretending. They have to put on a face that they’re these nice guys whose loyalties are, first and foremost, with the American people (as if any two Americans can completely agree on anything, much less the direction of the country). All presidents are a**holes, but they’re usually closet a**holes.

Not Steve Jobs.

Steve Jobs makes no apologies about being an a**hole. Sure, he smiles when he’s pitching a new product, but even then it’s more of a smarmy smirk than a warm ray of sunshine. Nobody makes the mistake of thinking he’s Mr. Rogers. He cuts through the B.S. and saves his energy for what really matters.

While this could be off-putting to some, it’s the perfect quality for the president to have. The thing about a**holes is that they know how to get stuff done. Steve Jobs doesn’t waste energy on niceties.

Consider this story from Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN (pointed out by John Gruber at Daring Fireball):

The story goes that ESPN president George Bodenheimer [...] spotted Apple CEO Steve Jobs in a hallway. It seemed like a good time to introduce himself. “I am George Bodenheimer,” he said to Jobs. “I run ESPN.”

Jobs just looked at him and said nothing other than “Your phone is the dumbest f***ing idea I have ever heard,” then turned and walked away.

You know what you’re getting from Steve Jobs. He’ll be the first politician in history who isn’t two-faced. He can’t possibly be two-faced because he wears his a**hole-ness on his sleeve.

Contrast this with Obama, who makes grandiose, rousing speeches that stir the emotions of his supporters – and then proceeds to deal most of those promises away before negotiations have even begun.

Jobs’ speeches will stir emotions, but he won’t make empty promises. In fact, as head of the most secretive government in history, the only promises he makes will be ones he has already been working on for the better part of a year. Major government overhauls and new initiatives will typically be announced two weeks before they’re set to take effect.

Half of the country won’t like Jobs, but they’ll know what they’re getting from him. This will build trust and respect.  His approval rating will be through the roof, and America will be united.

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Efficient Congress

As president, Jobs will require that all congressional bills that cross his desk be simplified. And when we say ‘simplified,’ we really mean it. There will be no more 200-page manifestos, filled with pork, earmarks, and fine print that nobody can possibly follow.

Jobs will declare on Day One that he isn’t signing anything that can’t be summed up in two sentences. The two sentences will have to be displayed in a black Myriad font with a white background. Corresponding images and promotional videos will be expected as well. Paper will not be used – all bills will be presented as stand-alone iPad apps:

An example of a health care bill in the Jobs era.

The biggest strength Jobs will have when it comes to congress, however, will be the leverage he will have on all of them. Every member of Congress will have been lobbied by some company or organization. Every one of those companies will be violating some patent which is owned by Apple.

The choice for congressmen will be very simple:

Do you want to support Jobs’ latest initiative, or do you want the organizations that are funding your political career to go bankrupt defending patent infringements?

It will be win after win for Jobs’ administration.

iHouse

As iconic a look as the White House has, Steve Jobs will decide that it’s time for an update. He will task Apple Senior VP of Design Jonathan Ive with redesigning the White House.

As White House 2.0, it will be known by most as iHouse. It will feature a familiar look, borrowed from Apple’s successful retail stores.

Tourists will be free to enter the open front, where they’ll be greeted by iHouse staffers (known as ‘Creatives’). If the citizens simply want to take a look around, they’re free to do that.

If, however, a person has a problem with something that is going on in the country, he will be ushered to the Genius Bar in the back of the iHouse. A Genius will be waiting to hear out his complaints, to which he will listen patiently. If the American’s complaint can’t be immediately resolved, he will be granted Apple Store credit and will walk home happy.

In addition, the iHouse will no longer be limited to Washington D.C. iHouses will pop up all over the country, in which citizens can have their voices heard and their needs satisfied.

The large number of iHouses will also serve to greatly increase the president’s security, as nobody will ever really know which iHouse Jobs is living in at any given time.

Vice President Steve Wozniak

In a gesture of unity and making amends, Jobs will select his Apple co-founder, Steve Wozniak, as vice president.

If you think Joe Biden is a gaffe waiting to happen, wait until you see Woz. He’ll regularly be caught on a live mic speaking of A.I. robots taking over the world. But it won’t matter, because people will just love him.

The mood at press conferences will be lightened, as he will frequently interrupt them with impromptu magic shows. Media cycles will be dominated by the quesiton of which Android phone he is toting this week

 

CNN's cameras will be frequently hijacked by Vice President Woz showing us something really cool

Woz’s fuzzy teddy bear presence will become a symbol for easing up, smiling and enjoying the ride. Americans will be happier than ever.

Press Secretary Walt Mossberg

With Jobs putting his own spin on the way that the country is run, who better to be the administration’s spokesperson than someone who has been reviewing his products for years? Walt Mossberg will fill the role of iHouse Press Secretary like no other.

In a bold move, Jobs will bring on Mossberg as press secretary without officially making him part of the administration. In fact, Walt won’t directly associate with anyone in the iHouse. This seemingly illogical move will pay huge dividends, as Mossberg’s distance from the administration will build a trust with the media and the public that no spokesperson has ever had.

Who better to speak for the iHouse than the nation's most trusted tech journalist?

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Walt will begin every press conference with an in-depth, unbiased review of Jobs’ latest moves as president. He won’t mince words and will be the first to criticize the president when his actions merit it.

This balanced view will give an immense power to his words, and when he does ultimately come to the conclusion that Jobs is doing his job better than any other President in history, we will all agree. The press – and the entire country – will come to a silent agreement with the administration. It will be an unprecedented moment in history.

Kick-ass State of the Union Addresses

But the real highlight of the Jobs administration will be his State of the Union addresses. They will kick ass.

Hotly anticipated for months, blogs will spend the better part of the year speculating about rumors and leaks of what he will announce. When the day finally comes, they won’t disappoint. For the first time, congress’ applause will be completely sincere. 95% of Americans will tune in to watch.

After about 50 minutes of exciting announcements and news of breakthroughs, the words everyone in the country has been waiting for will be uttered:

“One more thing…”

President Jobs’ “one more thing” will always be something absolutely amazing. It will be Christmas in January every time.

During his first State of the Union, everyone in the country will be given a free MacBook Air. In his second year in office, everyone will receive shares of Apple stock. For the year after that, everyone’s home will get a built-in Apple Store.

It will be like “Oprah’s Favorite Things,” only you don’t need to be in the studio audience to get in on it. It will be the most wonderful time of the year.

For a Brighter Tomorrow

So, fellow Americans, we implore you to look within. Don’t just settle for what we’ve come to expect from a president. Look at what we could have in a president.

We need a president who is an a**hole and isn’t ashamed of it. We need a more efficient congress. We definitely need free MacBooks.

We need Steve Jobs.

Apple iPad: Five Things I Like Most About the iPad

In keeping with the precedent established in previous "30 Days With..." series, I devoted yesterday's post to detailing my complaints and criticisms. Today is dedicated to the counter point of view--a list of my favorite things about the iPad from my 30 Days With the iPad journey.

There were, of course, some bumps along the way, but there are also a few things that I truly appreciated about using the iPad instead of my notebook. Without further ado, here is my list of the five things I like most about the iPad:

1. Size. Size does matter. And when you're talking about lugging a device around all over town, the smaller the better...to a point. Carting a 15-inch notebook, or maybe one of those laptops with dual 17-inch displays, may provide more of a portable computing workhorse, but then we get into a semantic debate about defining "portable".

On the other end of the spectrum, you could argue that the iPhone (or an Android or Windows Phone 7 smartphone) are even more compact and portable, or make a case for smaller tablets like the7-inch Samsung Galaxy Tab.

The iPad--especially the iPad 2--fits nicely in between those two extremes. It is big enough to make it practical, and small enough to make it portable. It has enough power and flexibility to do what you need it to in most cases, yet it is thin and light enough to be carried like a magazine. The same could be said of other similar tablets as well, like the Motorola Xoom, or the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1.

2. Stamina. It lasts, and lasts, and lasts. As if the size issue of the device itself isn't enough, working with a notebook on the go for more than a few hours involves carrying the power adapter and/or a backup battery as well. I can leave my home office with a fully-charged iPad 2, and use it freely for any purpose all day with virtually zero chance of running out of juice. It has the added benefit that if I did choose to carry the power adapter for insurance, the outlet plug and USB cable add little in the way of either size or weight.

3. AirPlay.AirPlay is simply awesome. For now, it is primarily an entertainment feature enabling me to stream audio and video content from the iPad to my TV or stereo. It works with some apps, and not with others.

4. App Store. You might recall that I have had some complaints about the Apple App Store. I'd like to see it cleaned up and better organized to make searching through 400,000 apps a little easier, and I wish the App Store would implement a test drive or return policy that would enable me to check out an app and scrap it if it doesn't meet my needs without getting charged for it.

5. Front Camera. The rear camera on the iPad 2 is essentially useless. If Apple doesn't plan to make significant jump in the quality and capabilities of that camera in the next iPad model, it should just eliminate it. The front-facing camera, on the other hand, is quite nice.

The ability to conduct FaceTime video calls, or participate in video conferencing sessions using Fuze Meeting, or WebEx make the iPad 2 much more valuable as a mobile productivity platform than its predecessor.

There is really a lot more that I like about the iPad. I was already an iPad fan and proponent before embarking on the 30 Days With the iPad series. However, just because I like the iPad in and of itself, or as a tablet, does not necessarily mean that I like the iPad as a PC replacement. I tried to keep this list of things I liked focused more or less on the ways I like the iPad 2 as a PC replacement.

Check back tomorrow for my summary and closing thoughts on how this experiment went, and the lesson I have learned along the way in the final 30 Days With the iPad post.

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Apple Bests Nokia and Samsung for Q2 Worldwide Smartphone Sales for Q2 Worldwide Smartphone sales

The official results are in: Apple has taken the crown as the world's largest smartphone maker for raw shipments, surpassing both Nokia and Samsung to capture 20.3 percent of all smartphone shipments worldwide. But, as CEO Steve Jobs might note, there's one more thing: Apple's also taken the crown for worldwide smartphone market share, clocking in at 18.5 percent for the second quarter of 2011.

Just how bad are the losses for Nokia? The company recorded a market share of 38.1 percent during the same time period last year. That's since shrunk to 15.2 percent, putting the handset producer in a solid third place behind Samsung's 17.5 percent smartphone market share. The loss ends Nokia's 15-year reign as the world's top smartphone vendor, according to research firm Strategy Analytics. And it's also done a number on Nokia's stock price– down 47 percent this year alone as the company struggles to compete against both iOS and Android.

Although Samsung took second in total smartphone shipments for the second quarter of 2011, at 19.2 percent, the company actually recorded a higher year-to-year growth in smartphone shipments than even mighty Apple. Year-to-year shipment growth for Apple jumped from 8.4 percent to 11.9 percent between Q2 2010 and Q2 2011. Samsung, however, rocketed from 3.1 percent of all worldwide smartphone shipments to 16.1 percent – thanks, in part, to healthy sales of the company's Galaxy S2 smartphone.

The same growth spike can be seen on Samsung's global market share as well. First-place Apple may have jumped from 13.5 percent to 18.5 percent to capture the lead, but Samsung rose from a scant five percent to 17.5 percent over a single year's worth of time.

"Samsung is breathing down Nokia's neck," said Neil Mawston, an analyst at Strategy Analytics. "An unexciting touch-phone portfolio, inventory correction, wavering demand for the Symbian platform and limited presence in the huge U.S. market continued to weigh on Nokia's near-term performance."

In total, year-to-year smartphone shipments worldwide grew 76 percent to a total of 110 million units: Apple shipped 20.3 million, Samsung shipped 19.2 million, and Nokia shipped 16.7 million.

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