Despite the fact that the Korean firm Samsung has a market share of less than 1% in China, the largest smartphone market in the world, and that in India, the second most important market in this sector, the company is not among the largest sellers. of devices, Samsung has become the manufacturer that sold the most smartphones during the first quarter of the year.
According to the consultancy Counterpoint Research, despite the disadvantage that Samsung has In the two most important markets in the world in the telephony sector, Samsung has managed to put into circulation 78 million smartphones of the different models that it currently offers on the market, which represents a drop of 2 points, compared to the same period of the previous year.
During the first quarter of last year, Samsung put 80 million smartphones into circulation. Coincidentally, the fall in sales by Samsung has been, in part, taken advantage of by Apple, who has managed to increase the number of sales in the same period last year, going from selling 50.8 million iPhones to selling 52.2 million devices during the last quarter with the apple at the back.
Huawei, has experienced a growth of almost 5 points, followed by Xiaomi, who the number of devices shipped this last quarter has doubled compared to the same period of the previous year. The rest of the manufacturer such as Oppo, Vivo, LG, Lenovo (including the Motorola range) and ZTE have seen how the number of devices they have put into circulation has decreased, being ZTE who has seen their shipments reduce to practically half compared to the same period last year.
I do not want to imagine the number of devices that Samsung could sell if the Indian and Asian markets weren't a negligible part of their accounts, quite the opposite of what happens with Apple accounts, where China has become an important source of income for the Cupertino-based company, in part because although it always flags the privacy flag for ahead, in China it does the opposite, and months ago we have been able to verify how the country's government has full access to the servers where Apple stores all the data of Chinese citizens who make use of Apple products and services.
