iPhone remains supreme despite flat global smartphone sales
While global smartphone revenues remained flat year-over-year, Apple led the market with record Q3 revenue and revenue share, with the iPhone 15 positioned to do even better this quarter.
Oppo
Peter Cohen
Despite China smartphone market contraction, Apple is still expanding
As smartphone markets all across the globe wither away, China saw only two manufacturers pick up any new growth so far in 2023 — and Apple is one of them.
Evan Selleck
Apple earned 66% of the entire smartphone market's profits in 2019
Research claims that while the entire market's smartphone profits declined by around a tenth in 2019, Apple continued to dominate with 66% of all profits and the nearest competitor being Samsung on just 17%.
William Gallagher
iPhone's global marketshare dips to 10.1% amid rise of Samsung & Chinese brands
Apple's share of the global smartphone market fell year-over-year in the June quarter from 11.3% to 10.1%, attributable by a research firm mostly because of better performance by Chinese vendors and Korea's Samsung.
Roger Fingas
Oppo sidesteps smartphone notch with under-screen camera
On Wednesday, major Chinese phone maker Oppo revealed an alternative to the smartphone display notches popularized by the iPhone X — what it's calling the Under-Screen Camera, or USC.
iPhone's global marketshare drops in March quarter as Chinese rivals remain ascendant
Apple saw the iPhone drop to 11.9% of the global smartphone market in the March quarter, even as Chinese rivals like Huawei bucked the industry's overall decline.
Apple unlikely to release first 5G iPhone until 2020 or later
While some rivals appear set to launch hardware with support for nascent 5G wireless technology in 2019 at some point, Apple looks like it's going to wait another year before making an iPhone that can use them — like it did twice before.
Apple's iPhone estimated third on units, number one in revenue in China
The iPhone is doing quite well in China, having led the local smartphone market in revenue — though not units — during the first half of 2018, according to one research firm.
Apple's cheaper iPhones are not the volume sellers pundits predicted: iPhone 8, X are
It's not news that Apple is grabbing all the profits in the smartphone industry. But new data shows that Apple's most expensive new iPhone flagships are accomplishing this largely on their own, indicating that analyst chatter about smartphone users really wanting cheaper devices is totally delusional.
Daniel Eran Dilger
Mike Wuerthele
Malcolm Owen
