Canalys: Apple leads Q4 sales for a third year in a row, Samsung stays on top in 2019

30 January 2020
Huawei recorded a decline of 7% in Q4, but was still the biggest gainer among the big players in the full year.

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  • 31 Jan 2020

Manchito, 31 Jan 2020Shipped doesn't mean sold.Sold doesn’t mean useful.

    Shipped doesn't mean sold.

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      • m2B
      • 31 Jan 2020

      toukale, 31 Jan 2020Don't let your feeling get hurt too much, what is impressiv... more"Moving a ton of devices is easy to do if you are willing to sell them low enough."
      Quite ironic when the only phones Apple is selling today are the LCD 11 and X models.
      I was simply pointing to the obvious fact omission, which clearly hurts you more than me, as you felt forced to reactivate your old spinster account to reply. :D

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        • vMf
        • 31 Jan 2020

        Professional, 30 Jan 2020If there is one thing that people want to show off, (with o... moreExcately!!! FB is the same on any phone! ........but i feel iphone 9 will blow things right out water!!!

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          • vMf
          • 31 Jan 2020

          Always be a war between samsung/apple!

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            • Anonymous
            • KSE
            • 31 Jan 2020

            Apple is concentrating in other areas also, top in wearable, top in earphones, top in tablets. Plus lockdown of such devices to iPhone. The ecosystem is continuing to get stronger, they did not relax.

            Other brands have no strong integration to each other. Pushing few innovations, left it to rot.. worse got improved by Apple, then they realise it.. but is too late.

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              • Kxu
              • 31 Jan 2020

              Selling cheap is not sustainable. Customer get used to the price, then end up complaining. Forcing companies to cut price yet again.

              Refuse to drop price is hard, you need reputation to keep you afloat. Really impressive what Apple had done.

                AnonD-762416, 30 Jan 2020The institutionalised RDF in effect. It's nice to know tha... moreDon't let your feeling get hurt too much, what is impressive is that they are doing what you describe with an ASP that is 3 times that of Samsung and everyone else. Moving a ton of devices is easy to do if you are willing to sell them low enough. Market share is easy to gain if you sell it cheap enough. That's how all those Chinese OEM's started, cheap pricing to build a user base and move devices and eventually start raising their prices. But no one can move the kind of numbers Apple is moving at the prices that is at least 3X that of their competitors.

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                  • 30 Jan 2020

                  The institutionalised RDF in effect.
                  It's nice to know that Apple had managed to top one (1) quarter a year for an impressive three years. It would however be a bit more interesting to know how many consecutive years Samsung has topped global sales. Is it ten years by now?

                    Huawei really needs it own OS, it has a big opportunity to lock people into their own ecosystem.

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                      • mhV
                      • 30 Jan 2020

                      Apple is unstoppable!

                        Apple is growing fast because they have two iPhones on the market and old ones and is much easier to sell large numbers, until others realize this tactic they will be long gone.

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                          • 30 Jan 2020

                          AND NAND, 30 Jan 2020There 327.9 million people live in USA.. And 60% of them do... moreIndeed

                            [deleted post]There 327.9 million people live in USA.. And 60% of them do use iPhone.. So the number isn't quite surprising.. Remember Apple does release iPhone series in Q4

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                              • S3u
                              • 30 Jan 2020

                              If there is one thing that people want to show off, (with or without a loan or installment) it's a phone where almost everyone opens the same social media apps, which are just as fast and the same on almost every other recent phone.