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Huawei Passes Apple For Second Place In Smartphone Shipments (venturebeat.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the coming-in-hot dept.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from VentureBeat: For the first time in seven years, Samsung and Apple have not taken the top two positions in the worldwide smartphone market. All hail Huawei. Although Samsung held onto first place -- the South Korean giant typically dominates the first three quarters of the year, with the American company winning the fourth quarter -- Huawei passed Apple for second place this part quarter. The Q2 2018 figures come from IDC (though Canalys and Strategy Analytics both agree that Huawei passed Apple in the quarter).

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  1. Not surprising by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    It's not surprising: the iPhone X has been a disaster. Quick informal poll: anyone ever see anyone with one in the wild? Past the first couple of weeks before they all got returned? (You can tell an iPhone X user because he's the one who has to very carefully look at his phone in order to get it to unlock.)

    The interface is a disaster (turns out, removing the home button and replacing it with the scroll gesture is a really bad idea), Face ID manages to thread the needle of being too loose and too strict at the same time: any face that looks vaguely like yours CAN unlock it while there's a good chance your face WON'T unlock it on any given attempt. (Not to mention hackers figured out how to print a mask that bypasses it within two weeks.)

    And then, you have the cost.

    Is it any wonder sales are down? The iPhone X is a disaster any way you slice it.