Galaxy S4: 10M in 4 weeks. iPhone 5: 5M in 3 days.

• iPhone 5 vs. Galaxy 4S videos: Drop tests or IQ tests?

  Reading the comments on these smackdowns, I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

  FORTUNE -- The outcome of the many drop tests that have surfaced on YouTube comparing the ruggedness of the Samsung Galaxy S4 with that of the Apple (AAPL) iPhone 5 was never really in doubt.

  In falls that shatter the screen of the new Galaxy, pop its back off and kill its camera, the iPhone 5 takes a licking MORE

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - May 1, 2013 7:03 AM ET
  Posted in: Apple, Drop tests, Galaxy S4, iPhone 5, Samsung, YouTube

• Chart: Android continues to lose ground to Apple in U.S.

  Of the 10.4 million new smartphone users between Nov. and Feb., 85% went to Apple.

  FORTUNE -- One way to view the U.S. smartphone data released Thursday by comScore (spreadsheets below) is to look at the total number of new subscribers in the 3-month period covered (November 2012 to February 2013) and compare the number of users who bought Apple (AAPL) iPhones with those who chose Google (GOOG) Android phones.

  Total new MORE

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 5, 2013 7:13 AM ET
  Posted in: Android, Apple, comScore, Galaxy S4, Google, iPhone 5, Samsung

• What Samsung really needs to beat Apple

  Korean electronics giant Samsung is nipping at Apple's heels, yes, but it is still missing one crucial element.

  FORTUNE -- The technology press loves a good narrative. And among the most beloved narratives is a good horserace. Two rivals striving to better each other with new products or new features. The archetypal tech rivalry, between Microsoft and Apple not only lasted for decades, it helped make Silicon Valley what it is today.

  During MORE

  Kevin Kelleher - Mar 28, 2013 7:26 AM ET
  Posted in: AAPL, Android, Apple, Brand, Galaxy S3, Galaxy S4, Google, iPhone 5, Kevin Kelleher, rivalry, Samsung, Samsung Electronics, smartphone, Sony

• By 5 to 1, Apple's iPhone 5 out-tweeted Samsung's Galaxy S4

  Ironically, the Galaxy tweets had more "positive bias" than the iPhone's

  FORTUNE -- Is Twitter the new measure of commercial buzz? Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster seems to think so.

  In a note to clients issued Wednesday he offers as evidence that Apple's (AAPL) smartphone "holds more mass appeal with consumers" the fact that there were five times as many tweets (2.4 million) about the iPhone 5 on the day of and the day MORE

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 27, 2013 5:22 PM ET
  Posted in: Apple, Galaxy S4, Gene Munster, iPhone 5, Piper Jaffray, Samsung

• Apple may be to blame for Foxconn's hiring freeze after all

  But not because of slowing iPhone 5 sales, as had been reported

  FORTUNE -- Apple's (AAPL) battered shares took another hit Wednesday -- down $8.84, nearly 2%, for the day -- after the Financial Times attributed a hiring freeze at the Foxconn factories that assemble many of Apple's products to a slowdown in iPhone 5 production.

  The stock didn't recover, even after a Foxconn spokesman flatly denied that the freeze had anything MORE

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Feb 21, 2013 6:42 AM ET
  Posted in: Apple, Foxconn, Hiring freeze, iPhone 5

• iPhone 5 and iPhone 4S each outsold the Galaxy S3 in Q4

  For the first time, Apple has the world's No. 1 and No. 2 bestselling smartphones

  FORTUNE -- Drilling a little deeper into sales data than the larger tech research firms, Strategy Analytics on Wednesday released the chart at right, which breaks smartphone sales down by model number.

  The data show that Apple's (AAPL) iPhone 5 overtook Samsung's Galaxy S3 by some 12 million units in the last quarter of 2012 to become MORE

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Feb 20, 2013 7:32 AM ET
  Posted in: Apple, Galaxy S3, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, Samsung, Strategy Analytics

• Apple 2.0's ten most-read stories of 2012

  A heist, a lawsuit, a liar, a passel of new products and a $75 million payout forgone

  FORTUNE -- There was no shortage of big Apple (AAPL) news in 2012, from a billion-dollar jury verdict to a three-month bear market that lopped $260 billion off the company's market cap. But of the 814 items filed in this space over the past 12 months, these were the 10 that -- for good or ill -- interested MORE

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 30, 2012 7:13 AM ET
  Posted in: Apple, Google Maps, Heist, iPad mini, iPhone 5, Mike Daisey, Tim Cook

• Apple's wild ride, set to music

  From $700 on Sept. 21 to $520 on Dec. 24, with a lot of sharp bumps along the way

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  FORTUNE -- I'm here to sing the praises of StockTwit's SirIsaacNewton, whoever he may be.

  Not content to teach basic technical analysis since early December to shell-shocked investors on the Twitter-based messaging service, he has posted a 3:49-minute movie, accompanied by soundtrack and Reuters headlines, of the bizarre bear market that lopped $170 MORE

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 29, 2012 5:32 AM ET
  Posted in: Apple, iPhone 5, SirIsaacNewton, StockTwits

• Apple's iPhone 5 lands in Africa, Southeast Asia and the Caribbean without a splash

  Three months after its debut, the new phone quietly reaches its 101st country

  FORTUNE -- I've scoured Google News and YouTube and can't find any launch day videos, photos or news stories about the iPhone 5 landing in St. Kitts.

  As the easternmost of the five Caribbean islands scheduled to get the phone on Friday, Dec. 21, St. Kitts was country No. 101 -- making good Tim Cook's pledge to sell the MORE

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 27, 2012 7:57 AM ET
  Posted in: Africa, Apple, Caribbean, iPhone 5, Launch, Southeast Asia