How do launch numbers for iPhones and Samsung Galaxy S phones compare?
Some rivalries will never die -- chocolate vs peanut butter, Yankees vs Red Sox, and iPhone vs Android, just to name a few. With the announcement of the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, many Android users took to the Internet to loudly exclaim how underwhelmed they were by the devices. Its new features were things they'd already had for years, except for all the ones that weren't, of course. Rivalries are fun, but the musings of voices on the Internet aren't nearly as important as the voices of the buying public. And when you compare the launch numbers of various Samsung Galaxy S phones to the iPhone 6 and earlier iPhones, there's absolutely no competition.
This morning, Horace Dediu of Asymco Tweeted out a detailed chart documenting the launch performance of various iOS and Samsung Galaxy S phones. The numbers speak for themselves. For perspective, the iPhone 6 preorder beat every noted model of the Galaxy S by millions of units, even though the Galaxy S numbers take into account the first month or more of sales while the iPhone numbers are usually after just a handful of days.
Here's that chart:
