Canalys: Samsung shipped the most phones in Q3, but chip shortage caused market decline

15 October 2021
Apple overtook Xiaomi and regained the number two spot.

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Anonymous, 15 Oct 2021That's what you claim after you managed to look at a s... moreI totally agree here. I've been waiting for one update 3 months already, it's super annoying.

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    pangolinpanda, 15 Oct 2021Smartphone brands I will never buy: Samsung, Apple, Oppo an... morego get siemens, or alcatel bro.

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      Razr 5G Fan, 15 Oct 2021I don't care about shipments. How about sales? Samsung... moreShipments mean sales here.
      Not how many devices were sent to the stores.
      Brands make more units as they are sold.

        Xiaomi removed P2 3.5mm and SD card from best phones and declined behind Apple any surprise?

          pangolinpanda, 15 Oct 2021Smartphone brands I will never buy: Samsung, Apple, Oppo an... moreWhat? just the best brands!!

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            Anonymous, 15 Oct 2021These units shipped numbers are entirely irrelevant. Xiaomi... moreinfact if canalys uses that mechanism then apple will be no. 1,2,3,4,5,6,7...Samsung no 9

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              mayga1, 15 Oct 2021I wonder if people that make statements like you about appl... moreNo, I don't care what you use. Use whatever you want. What I do hate is how furiously people hate on Apple and talk s**t about it just to do exactly what you say I think I'm doing. Changing minds. It's people who s**t on everything Apple and claim it's literally the worst of the worst and won't ever acknowledge good things they have that aren't challenged by anyone in the industry. Every time I bring up longevity of updates, few scrubs will ALWAYS crash in spitting and hissing left and right how iOS is literally the worst thing ever and how updates are fake and how nothing matters because Android is embodied perfection.

                Smartphone brands I will never buy: Samsung, Apple, Oppo and Vivo,
                Xiaomi is okay but they spam too many models nowadays.

                  Razr 5G Fan, 15 Oct 2021I don't care about shipments. How about sales? Samsung... more2015 called, they want their biased and invalid point back about phone sales. Every company uses the words shipped, including apple. As always, it means that they have been brought by various retailers .

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                    Shipments sales users haters bla bla bla. Just buy any phone you want. And don't look at numbers and opinions.

                      I don't care about shipments. How about sales? Samsung has a ton of phones in different price points. They're kinda becoming what Nokia was 20 years ago. Nokia was the dominant player and was quite creative. Samsung is the only one really trying to innovate.

                      Shocking how much Huawei has fallen. Trump really killed them off.

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                        Samsung knows that it will maintain its no.1 spot for a very long time to come. From the Exynos 2200 to it's tab S8 Ultra and next year's Z Flip and Fold 4 series, Xiaomi taking Samsung's podium was a once off thing!

                          Anonymous, 15 Oct 2021That's what you claim after you managed to look at a s... moreI wonder if people that make statements like you about apple, and anecdotal statements about anything not apple, think they are actually changing hearts and minds. Sigh, "that everyone must own an iphone so I feel more validated mindset" should be listed as some type of mental disorder. It's probably not, because there are so many millions that that think the same way, thus making it a norm.

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                            Apple is rising and Xiaomi fell to the 3rd place

                              AnonD-994853, 15 Oct 2021I am confident that after a few months, Xiaomi will return ... moreXiaomi become no 1 last quarter not because they sold more phone, but because Samsung shipped less phone because of chip shortage. Xiaomi became no 1 with around 50m devices while usually Samsung ship around 80m phones per quarter.

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                                Premkumar PremSagar, 15 Oct 2021Vivo oppo realme iqoo OnePlus all combined have reached the... moreThe blue chart says OnePlus is there with Oppo.

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                                  rizki1, 15 Oct 2021yes funny reason now. and even $400 xiaomi is better than $... moreThat's what you claim after you managed to look at a spec sheet online. After using iPhone for 3 years now, there is no replacement for it when you care about things outside of just raw specs. I'll take Apple's updating over any hardware spec in a heartbeat. Being able to actually update things the moment you see update being live and that being done on time without exception for 3 years is just outstanding. I can't stress enough how annoying it was to wait for weeks and months to receive update on my phone because I had "wrong" internal verison or "wrong" region. Meanwhile people with same Galaxy or same Mi model received them long ago. This crap just doesn't exist with Apple and I love it.

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                                    In 2020 Apple moves the introduction to October. Thus the 3% increase this year were not really a market gain over last year.

                                      Vivo oppo realme iqoo OnePlus all combined have reached the top spot long back. All.combined belongs to BBK electronics china. Chinese dominate mobile sector.

                                        Anonymous, 15 Oct 2021Basically you listed 2 brands with faded fame and 1 copycat... moreyes funny reason now. and even $400 xiaomi is better than $800 apple. you see the expensive phone means it's nice and the sales or shipments are low because of that?