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 2 years ago 24

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 6 years ago 47

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 6 years ago 20

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.

Roger Fingas 7 years ago 25

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.

William Gallagher 7 years ago 43

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.

Roger Fingas 7 years ago 28

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 7 years ago 105

Data suggests China's smartphone decline worse than expected, Apple's iPhone pushed out of fourth place

The Chinese smartphone market was actually hit harder in the March quarter than a recent report suggested, dropping 21 percent year-over-year to 91 million units, according to a separate analysis.

Roger Fingas 8 years ago 18

The Smartphone Endgame: Who wins once shipment volumes peak?

For decades, market research firms have been confidently asserting that the "winners" in PCs, tablets, smartphones and other consumer electronics are not firms that are profitable or even sustainable, but merely those shipping the largest volumes at any given time. This has enabled them to crown a successive line of failed players, then rapidly move on to a new "winner," often within the same year. The bigger problem for this sort of flawgic is that the game itself is changing.

Daniel Eran Dilger 8 years ago 62

Apple beat Samsung in unit sales with iPhone X during Q4, during the "biggest annual fall in smartphone history"

Last year, Samsung's exploding Galaxy Note 7 created a catastrophically distracting meltdown for the company that enabled Apple to surpass it in total unit sales of smartphones during the winter quarter. This year, Apple has again surpassed sales of all Samsung smartphones in the quarter, except this time it's by virtue of trend-bucking new demand for the innovative, revolutionary iPhone X—without much apparent regard for its price.

Daniel Eran Dilger 8 years ago 20

Apple putting pinch on worldwide OLED supply, Chinese vendors looking to mini LED in 2018 phones

Supply chain reports from China suggest that Huawei, Oppo, and Xiaomi are looking at alternatives to OLED, as Apple grows the quantity of screens it needs for the iPhone.

Mike Wuerthele 8 years ago 11

Android smartphones expected to follow Apple's iPhone X lead in adopting 3D sensor tech

Looking to keep up with the competition from Apple's iPhone X, a number of Android smartphone makers are expected to adopt 3D sensors for products launching in 2018.

Roger Fingas 8 years ago 35

Android smartphone vendors reportedly pushing for foldable mobile devices with dual displays

Android smartphone manufacturers are looking towards developing more foldable phones to offer consumers a larger display to compete against bigger handsets like the iPhone 8 Plus, a report claims, with a number of vendors said to be working on mobile devices using multiple screens to create a larger display area.

Malcolm Owen 8 years ago 36

Other smartphones joining Apple's iPhone X with 3D sensor module delays

Apple's iPhone X — the first iPhone with a "TrueDepth" camera — may not be the only smartphone suffering from problems with 3D sensor production, as shipments for competing products are also reportedly being delayed.

Roger Fingas 8 years ago 37

Apple crushes Samsung in China as iPhone attracts twice the loyalty in upgrades over domestic brands

Young smartphone buyers in China are preferring to buy low-priced domestic brands over phones from Samsung, but the loyalty rate in buying another Oppo or Vivo phone is half that of buyers getting another iPhone— which remains the largest installed smartphone base in China.

Daniel Eran Dilger 8 years ago 19

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