Mark, I have a lovely bridge for sale with original Samsung rivets - anyone interested?

Do you know what Apple doesn't do, and has never done? Channel stuffing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_stuffing

Let's revisit these numbers in three months and then again three months after that.

Another item of note... Apple's figures are official, announced in an earnings report/call that's governed by SEC reporting rules. Samsung's numbers are strictly out of thin air by IDC and as best as I can tell, based on nothing. In the US alone, for the umpteenth quarter in a row, every major service provider sold more iPhones than other brands - again, official numbers reported by each respective carrier. It's hard to imagine considering the iPhone costs more, sometimes much more.