El Samsung Galaxy S5 and the iPhone 5s They are the flagships of the two companies that sell the most smartphones each year. It is normal for the sales data of these two to be monitored to see which of them is having the most success in the market. In the absence of official sales data, we can take as a reference the infographic of iqmetrix, who already give the Samsung Galaxy S5 the title of the winner of the first weekend.
The data and statistics, of course, cannot be considered as absolute, since some important variants must be taken into account. To begin with, iqmetrix has taken into account the sales data of 15.000 stores in North America, including the United States and Canada, so the data may have nothing to do with the Spanish statistics. In addition, the data taken as a reference are the percentages of mobile phones sold in the first weekend in which the smartphones have been on sale. These percentages depend a lot on the season and the smartphones that have been sold that weekend from other brands. In any case, they can be a good reference. At the very least, it's the only reference we have right now.
The first weekend that the iPhone 5s was on sale took place between September 20 and 22 of last year 2013, and the smartphone accounted for 18% of sales in the US market, and 13% of market sales. Canadian. The first weekend that he Samsung Galaxy S5 has been for sale has been the one that has elapsed between April 11 and 13 of this year 2014, and has dominated a quarter of the US market, with 25%, and 18% of the Canadian market, which indicates that the sales of the Galaxy S5 would have been higher than those of the smartphone of the Cupertino company, at least in terms of percentages. However, the most accurate data will arrive in a few weeks, when Samsung officially publishes the sales of the smartphone in the first days and after a month, which will allow us to compare the sales figures with those of the iPhone 5s and then know which one. of the two it has been more successful in the market.
Source: iqmetrix
