Apple outpaces Nokia in global smartphone shipments

Today’s “clearly disappointing” news from Nokia just got much more clear in its disappointment. As touched on during an earnings call this morning, the Finnish handset manufacturer’s smartphone shipments took a 34 percent dip down from an identical quarter last year, to 16.7 million units — that’s markedly fewer than the 20.3 million that Apple shipped during that very same period of time, as announced in its far more celebratory earnings report. Despite his stated disappointment, however, Nokia chief Stephen Elop insists that the corporate is on course, making “better than expected progress.” Really, it will be significant in times like these for an organization to concentrate on the more positive side of items .