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Huawei Surpasses Apple As the World's Second Largest Smartphone Brand (theverge.com)
According to analysis by consulting firm Counterpoint Research, China's leading smartphone marker, Huawei, surpassed Apple's global smartphone sales for the first time in June and July. The company is only behind Samsung in sales. The Verge reports: Figures haven't been released yet for August, though Counterpoint indicates sales for that month also look strong. However, it's worth noting that with Apple's new iPhone releases just around the corner, the iPhone maker is almost certain to get back on top in September. Researchers at Counterpoint also point out that Huawei has a weak presence in the South Asian, Indian, and North American markets, which "limits Huawei's potential to the near-to-mid-term to take a sustainable second place position behind Samsung." Its strongest market is China, and it's also popular in Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. Still, Apple doesn't have much to worry about; Counterpoint says the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus remain the world's best-selling smartphones, while Oppo's R11 and A57 claimed the third and fourth spots, respectively, followed by Samsung's Galaxy S8, Xiaomi's Redmi Note 4X, and Samsung's Galaxy S8 Plus. Surprisingly, despite overtaking Apple in global sales, none of Huawei's phones appear on the Top 10 list.
" Surprisingly, despite overtaking Apple in global sales, none of Huawei's phones appear on the Top 10 list. " only surprising if you are ignorant of the market. Huawei make a shit ton of different model phones. They could easily become Number 1 and never have a phone in the top 10. haven't touched their phones myself but I hear mostly good things about them, it is their tablets that interest me.
> Huawei, surpassed Apple's global smartphone sales for the first time in June and July
Why would most people and Apple fans purchase an iPhone in June or July, provided that the new iPhone is to be announced a few weeks later?
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There are enough people just in my circle who prefer the 4" iPhone SE over the larger iPhone models... I'd expect someone on the Android side of things will eventually go after that market as well. I'm kind of surprised Samsung hasn't done it.
I had the 5.5" 6 Plus for a couple years, but like you said - the size was a bit much. I eventually replaced it with the 4.7" version, which I like because I can one-hand my phone again now.
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I finally managed to wean my wife and kids off iPhones, which were ruining me with each upgrade cycle / theft / breakage.
Android has finally gotten "good enough" to be a viable iPhone competitor, and the Huawei phones are great at less than half the price.
I can't wait to see a guy tries to fit a new 20" Huewai Smartphone in their pocket.
" Surprisingly, despite overtaking Apple in global sales, none of Huawei's phones appear on the Top 10 list. " only surprising if you are ignorant of the market. Huawei make a shit ton of different model phones
Yup, my reflexion too.
It's easier for Apple to be top selling phone - even if they sell in much smaller volume - when they basically only sell one single phone in 2 variations.
Huawei might sell a much bigger total volume, but divided by hundreds of models, none of the phone will individually beat any of the top 10 sellers.
Same situation with operating system regarding iOS vs Android:
back then's Apple smartphone were the top seller, but Android was (and is still today) the most popular OS even if no phone with it did beat any phone with iOS.
simply there were dozens of android phone manufacturer, so even if total installation did beat iOS, none of them did individually beat Apple in volume.
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As much as I dislike almost all phone manufacturers, I will still grudgingly trust Apple more than the others when it comes to securing my private information on my devices against apps, 3rd parties, and hackers doing things that I don't know are being done. Huawei -- what do you want to bet that they take any of that shit seriously? Cmon, even Google doesn't police its apps and infrastructure well, what are the chances that a down-the-rung OEM does?
It might be an old source, but Apple seem to still trounce Samsung on profit margins...
God knows how though, samsung's phones are expensive to buy and cheaply built compared to Apple's. Maybe labor costs are a factor...
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No nokia ignored the smartphone market and clung to a dying OS that nobody wanted way too long to the point they were reliant almost completely on dumb phone market,
Not correct. Nokia very much did NOT ignore the smartphone market. The problem was that their product offerings were not well aligned with what it turned out customers actually wanted. Nokia was for a long time the number one seller of "smartphones" even before Apple introduced the iPhone. The problem was that once people saw the iPhone the game was different after that and Nokia wasn't able to catch up. They were selling smartphones the whole time but the problem was that they weren't selling the smartphones that people actually wanted post-iPhone.
Then Nokia made the asinine decision to announce the switch to Microsoft's OS close to a year before they actually had a product ready to ship. Basically they announced that their current products that they were selling were dead on arrival so who is going to buy a phone with an OS you know isn't going to get updated or supported?
It's "easy" (for lack of a better word) to sell lots of units if you don't give a shit about making a profit. The tough bit is to make a lot of profit while still selling a lot of units. So far only Apple and Samsung seem to have figured out that trick in the smartphone era.
Why would most people and Apple fans purchase an iPhone in June or July, provided that the new iPhone is to be announced a few weeks later?
Millions of people (including Apple customers) don't actually give a shit about having the latest and greatest. My father has an iPhone and it's a fine choice for him but he's never been on the latest version. He's always 1-2 editions behind whatever the latest is and he's fine with that. There are millions of people just like him. For someone like me or presumably you, you are correct - I would not buy a new iPhone three weeks before a new version is released because there is a reasonable chance I might upgrade if I like what I see.
Who are you? Huawei?
It is pronounced (roughly) Wah way. There is no "who" sound.
It is a good name in Chinese, since the "hua" hanzi is shorthand for "China" and the "wei" hanzi can mean "action" or "achievement". So it means "Chinese action" or "Chinese achievement".
Nokia did that too, I hear it worked out great for them.
It *did* work great for them back in the dumb-phone and feature-phone era.
Management just completely fucked up everything afterwards regarding smartphones : - They dragged the aging symbian platfrom way too much. ("But hey, it has always worked until now, so it's a safe bet !") (~yeah sure. And maybe Palm should have stuck to PalmOS even longer~) - They let go the R&D departement which was until that point striving to make nice smartphone/tablet OS (the Meamo/Meego line with N700, N800, N900, and the first large scale public N9, etc.) and would have actually helped Nokia become relevant in the smartphone era. ("But hey, it's burning money, let's leave the burning ship for shareholder's sake !") (on the other hand that team manage to escape the burning ship on a small jolla (pun intended by them) to survive and put an interesting OS on the marked) - They decided to ged in bet with Microsoft. ("But in the business world you're never wrong to go to Microsoft !" (Or was it IBM ?~) )
End result : "we didn't do anything wrong, but somehow, we lost"
They kept doing stupid shit that would sound "a safe bet" to an MBA, but didn't make any sense. (And the biggest part of these decision was taken by microsoft shills such as Elop)
I always figured that scrapping the Meamo/Meego line and hiring a Microsoft executive was what really finished them off.
By the time of Nokia, everyone should have been wary of partnering with Microsoft especially when it came to mobile devices. The failure of the Zune and Kin and the stagnation of Windows Mobile should have been a red flag.
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