Apple’s iPhone 7 Plus was the 2nd-best selling phone in China last year;...
Apple was the only foreign brand to have a smartphone model in the top 10 best-selling handsets...
View ArticleMing-Chi Kuo: Apple’s next-gen 6.1-inch LCD iPhone to outsell next-gen 5.8-...
KGI analyst Ming-Chi Kuo believes consumer demand for a next-generation 6.1-inch LCD iPhone...
View ArticleApple iPhone surpasses Samsung to become world’s No.1 smartphone brand
According to the latest research from Counterpoint’s Market Monitor service...
View ArticleIDC: Global wearables market grew 7.7% in Q417 and 10.3% in 2017 as Apple...
The worldwide wearables market continued its upward trajectory in both the fourth quarter...
View ArticleStrategy Analytics: Apple shipped 600,000 HomePods in Q1 for 6% share of...
Amazon and Google accounted for a dominant 70% share of global smart speaker shipments in Q1 2018 although their combined share has fallen from 84% in Q4 2017 and 94% in the year ago quarter...
View ArticleApple’s iPhone X remained the world’s best-selling smartphone in March
According to the latest research from Counterpoint’s Market Pulse April Edition...
View ArticleApple’s HomePod makes a small dent in smart speaker market in debut quarter
Apple officially jumped into the smart speaker market in the first quarter with the HomePod...
View ArticleWearables market up 35% in first quarter as Apple maintains lead
Wearable band shipments grew 35% year on year to 20.5 million units in Q1 2018...
View ArticleGoogle overtakes Amazon to lead in smart speaker market unit sales
Smart speakers continue to be the world’s fastest-growing consumer technology segment...
View ArticleXiaomi unveils ‘Mi 8’ knockoff of Apple’s iPhone X
Chinese technology firm Xiaomi held a product launch event in Shenzhen today and unveiled the Mi 8...
View ArticleChinese iPhone knockoff peddler Xiaomi’s big IPO flops on its first day of...
Xiaomi Corp. fell as much as 6% on its debut, as an escalating trade war and uncertainty about its valuation...
View ArticleApple’s iPhone was the top-selling smartphone on Alibaba platforms during...
“Apple was the top-selling mobile phone brand during Alibaba’s record-breaking 24-hour Singles Day shopping event, beating its Chinese rivals,” Arjun Kharpal reports for CNBC. “Alibaba released a list...
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Apple’s revolutionary iPhone continues to own the premium smartphone market
“According to Counterpoint Research’s Market Monitor Q3 2018, the global premium smartphone segment [over $400] continues to grow faster than the overall smartphone market,” Tarun Pathak writes for...
View ArticleApple launches trade-in program in China to get Android users to upgrade to...
“Apple is having a rough quarter selling iPhones to Chinese consumers, according to CEO Tim Cook’s letter to investors on Wednesday,” Krystal Hu reports for Yahoo Finance. “Cook blamed the...
View ArticleXiaomi reveals dual-folding smartphone prototype (with video)
“The Chinese mobile maker broke the news with a teaser video posted on Weibo that shows Xiaomi president and co-founder Lin Bin using what at first looks like a normal tablet device, until he folds...
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China’s smartphone market dropped 14% in 2018, with just under 400 million...
In 2018, smartphone shipments in China fell to their lowest level since 2013, at 396 million units. The natural slowdown as consumers keep their smartphones for longer is one factor, but it has been...
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IDC: Samsung edges Apple as smartphone woes continue with worldwide shipments...
According to preliminary data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, smartphone vendors shipped a total of 375.4 million units during the fourth...
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Apple’s HomePod shipments surged 45% in holiday quarter
The final results are in and they confirm that smart speakers were the hottest consumer electronics product in 2018. Strategy Analytics’ latest research shows that Q4 shipments grew 95% to 38.5...
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Gartner: Apple’s iPhone unit sales suffered worst quarterly decline since...
Global sales of smartphones to end users stalled in the fourth quarter of 2018, totaling 408.4 million units — growth of just 0.1 percent over the fourth quarter of 2017, according to Gartner, Inc....
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When Apple’s iPhone doesn’t change, knock off-happy Android phone peddlers...
“when I gaze out toward the approaching Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, I can already tell you that it will bring perhaps the most diverse selection of smartphone forms, sizes, designs, and...
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IDC: Apple No.1 in Q418 worldwide wearables shipments with 16.2 million...
The worldwide market for wearable devices grew 31.4% during the fourth quarter of 2018 (Q418), reaching a new high of 59.3 million units according to data from the International Data Corporation (IDC)...
View ArticleXiaomi uses Apple Memoji ad to push ‘Mimoji’ clone, says it was ‘accident’
Tianyu M. Fang for Caixin Global: Xiaomi’s augmented-reality avatar set, Mimoji, is definitely not a clone of Apple’s Memoji — they just look very similar and happen to share identical-sounding names —...
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Xiaomi uses Apple’s ads for its Memoji knockoff inventively called ‘Mimoji’
William Gallagher for AppleInsider: After Xiaomi protesting that of course its ‘Mimoji’ is nothing like Apple’s practically identical ‘Memoji,’ the company has accidentally used Apple’s adverts for its...
View ArticleBeleaguered Samsung ends mobile phone production in China
Reuters: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd has ended mobile telephone production in China, it said on Wednesday, hurt by intensifying competition from domestic rivals in the world’s biggest smartphone market....
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Xiaomi gears up to peddle Apple Watch knockoff
Xiaomi’s Apple Watch knockoff Rachel England for Engadget: As Xiaomi gears up to launch its 108-megapixel phone at its November 5th event, the company has also unveiled details of its upcoming...
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iPhone takes 24.3% smartphone share across five major EU markets
Kantar today revealed its smartphone OS data for the fourth quarter of 2019. Data reveals that Apple’s iPhone accounts for 24.3% smartphone market share across the five major European markets (EU5),...
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Apple’s iPhone XR, the world’s bestselling smartphone in 2019
The iPhone XR was the world’s bestselling smartphone in 2019, easily out-shipping all other models and extending Apple’s record of perennially offering the market’s top-selling product. Apple’s iPhone...
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Xiaomi claims China smartphone sales already close to full recovery
Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi Corp is seeing signs of a sales recovery in China, it said on Tuesday, as the country claims it is returning to normal after being the epicenter of the COVID-19...
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Apple boosts smartphone market share in China – Canalys
Apple captured a greater percentage of China’s smartphone market share in the first quarter, according to data from research firm Canalys released on Friday. Apple’s powerful iPhone SE starts at just...
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Xiaomi co-founder Lei Jun caught posting from his Apple iPhone
Today Lei Jun, Xiaomi’s CEO and co-founder, inadvertently revealed that he uses an Apple iPhone at least occasionally, and not one Xiaomi’s many iPhone wannabes. GizChina: His recent post on which he...
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IDC: Apple again dominates worldwide wearables market
Global shipments of wearables grew 29.7% year over year during the first quarter of 2020 (1Q20) as total device volume reached 72.6 million units according to new data from the International Data...
View ArticleApple iPhone 12 sales in China reach nearly 18 million units in 4Q20
Sales of the iPhone 12 lineup in the China market were outperformed expectations in the fourth quarter of 2020, reaching a rather amazing… The post Apple iPhone 12 sales in China reach nearly 18...
View ArticleChina’s Xiaomi devices added to U.S. military blacklist, shares plunge
The shares of China's Xiaomi, the world's third-largest maker of smartphones, plunged in Hong Kong trade on Friday after the U.S. DOJ… The post China’s Xiaomi devices added to U.S. military blacklist,...
View ArticleGartner: Apple extends lead as the No. 1 semiconductor chip buyer in 2020
Apple remained the No. 1 semiconductor chip buyer in 2020, representing 11.9% of the total worldwide market, according to preliminary… The post Gartner: Apple extends lead as the No. 1 semiconductor...
View ArticleApple continues to dominate worldwide wearables market
Apple continues to dominate the worldwide wearables market as shipments of wearable devices reached 153.5 million in the Q420… The post Apple continues to dominate worldwide wearables market appeared...
View ArticleApple’s iPhone 12 lineup displays its 5G dominance
Last October, Apple's iPhone 12 lineup quickly climbed the charts to become the best-selling 5G smartphone - despite being on sale for just… The post Apple’s iPhone 12 lineup displays its 5G dominance...
View ArticleIDC: Apple is the clear leader in the worldwide wearables market
Apple is the clear leader in the worldwide wearables market. According to new data from the International Data Corporation… The post IDC: Apple is the clear leader in the worldwide wearables market...
View ArticleApple’s Q2 iPhone shipments up 17.8% year-over-year – IDC
Apple's iPhone shipments in the second calendar quarter are up 17.8% year-over-year, according to International Data Corporation (IDC)… The post Apple’s Q2 iPhone shipments up 17.8% year-over-year –...
View ArticleApple iPhone shipments grow 15.7% YOY in Europe in Q2
According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, Apple iPhone shipments grew 15.7% year-over-year in Europe in calendar Q2… The post Apple iPhone shipments grow 15.7% YOY in Europe in Q2...
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China’s Xiaomi vows ‘War of Life and Death’ against Apple iPhone; pledges to...
Apple iPhone knockoff peddler Xiaomi will ratchet up its challenge to Apple by focusing on the high-end segment of the global smartphone market, according to the Chinese company’s founder and chief...
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Gartner: Apple iPhone No.1 in global smartphone sales in Q421
Worldwide smartphone sales grew 6% in 2021, according to Gartner. Apple iPhone sales in 2021 grew 7.6% over 2020. Smartphone sales rebounded in the first half of 2021, following a 12.5% decline in...
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Apple iPhone sales grow while global smartphone market falls 9% in Q3 as...
In Q3 2022, the global smartphone market recorded its third consecutive decline this year, dropping 9% year-on-year, marking the worst Q3 since 2014. Apple was the only vendor in the top five to record...
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As only Apple sees growth among major smartphone makers, Qualcomm sees...
As only Apple’s iPhone last quarter showed growth among major smartphone makers, citing, among other things, increasingly higher rates of Android switchers, Qualcomm on Wednesday said it sees the...
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Apple iPhone dominates Q4 smartphone shipments, market share despite CCP...
Despite the Chinese Communist Party’s failed ‘Zero COVID’ shutdowns of Foxconn’s “iPhone City” assembly campus in China during Q4, Apple’s iPhone dominated worldwide smartphone shipments and increased...
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Apple again the world’s top semiconductor buyer in 2022
The top 10 global original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) decreased their chip spending by 7.6% and accounted for 37.2% of the total market in 2022, according to preliminary results by Gartner. Apple...
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Apple iPhone was only top five smartphone brand to grow globally...
Canalys’ latest research shows that global smartphone shipments fell by 13% to 269.8 million units in Q1 2023. The demand decline has started to flatten, although the contrast between Q1 2022 and Q1...
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Apple iPhone grew 6.1% in China as overall Chinese smartphone market declined...
According to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, Apple’s iPhone grew 6.1% in China even as the overall Chinese smartphone market declined 7.3% YoY in the second quarter of 2023. 65.7...
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Global smartphone market grows 2% in Q3 over Q2; Apple’s iPhone share at 16%
Global smartphone sell-through volumes fell 8% YoY in Q3 2023, the ninth consecutive quarter to record a decline, but grew 2% QoQ, according to the latest research from Counterpoint’s Market Pulse...
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Apple takes becomes the world’s biggest smartphone maker in 2023; iPhone...
iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max A shift of power at the top of the smartphone market was driven by all-time high market share for Apple’s iPhone and a first time at the top. Overall, the global...
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Apple becomes top volume seller of smartphones
With its seminal iPhone, Apple ended Samsung Electronics 12-year run as the largest volume seller of smartphones worldwide, commanding a 20% share of the market in 2023, according to data from...
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