Canalys: Apple retakes second spot in Q3 global smartphone shipments

29 October 2021
Samsung shipped the most phones but the market still saw a 6% decline.

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  • 31 Oct 2021

BBK is the real #1 here

    Anonymous, 31 Oct 2021If the US market had more Android phone brands then Apple&#... moreAbsolutely...Only Chinese brand available is OnePlus.
    There's no Vivo, Realme, Mi, Huawei, etc.
    If given an opportunity, these brands would take over the market within no time.

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      • 31 Oct 2021

      i0S.- Never.- Again, 31 Oct 2021Apple traditionally gets higher sales in q3 and q4 because ... moreIf the US market had more Android phone brands then Apple's market share would go down further because those are good phones at lower prices than iPhones. Most of the $300-$600 segment Chinese companies would especially be the ones to benefit

        Apple traditionally gets higher sales in q3 and q4 because of newly launched iPhones, the shipments go down during q1 and q2.

        If not for the ban on Huawei, Apple would be trailing behind at no.3

          Anonymous, 30 Oct 2021iphone price is comparable to android flagships. Plus the ... moreNah android always cheaper than iphone and its perform even longer than iphone nowadays. Check your fact bro this is not 2016.😂

            Anonymous, 30 Oct 2021I dont see how apple users have more money. More rich peopl... moreMy point was lot of money are made on pc, while people use phones its still for play, whether they are Billionaires or poor people,

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              • 30 Oct 2021

              Anonymous, 30 Oct 2021iphone price is comparable to android flagships. Plus the ... moreMy Android doesn't lag after years

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                • 30 Oct 2021

                Anonymous, 30 Oct 2021I dont see how apple users have more money. More rich peopl... moreiphone price is comparable to android flagships.
                Plus the phones value remains for many years unlike android where the phone will lag in a year and half

                  Anonimo, 30 Oct 2021What does your comment have to do with this article? Do you... moreWhat are you talking about? :D You said Apple will be behind Xiaomi at third place next Q and i said Apple will actually be number one next Q because Q4 is by far Apple best quarter and it's the Q where they even can beat Samsung like they 've been doing in recent years.

                    -Trix-, 30 Oct 2021What your comment have anything to do with Q4 where Apple w... moreWhat does your comment have to do with this article? Do you realise that comments make sense only in the context of the article?

                      Anonimo, 30 Oct 2021Have you read the article at all? Look at the picture maybe... moreWhat your comment have anything to do with Q4 where Apple will be number one?

                        Anonymous, 30 Oct 2021Just because you sell bazillion junk phones and you use OS ... more"Just because you sell bazillion junk phones and you use OS that's free to use"


                        You dare call it "just because" ? Those bazillion Android phones are junk ? IDK how one can be so deluded with being an Apples fan, to go on to consider an entire category of phones as junk cause you prefer something else over it. That 'free-to-use' android enables billions of people to have a phone at fair prices unlike Apple, to charge just anything since they are such greedy for money. Those Galaxy Folds are not junk either, nor those plastic ones, that you claim are junk, just because you prefer glass. People do have a choice to get whatever things they want. Just because you simp over Apple, does not mean that everything else is junk. What stupid logic of yours is that, I cannot understand

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                          • 30 Oct 2021

                          Hemedans, 29 Oct 2021while true Apple user has more money, last data i saw Googl... moreI dont see how apple users have more money. More rich people and celebrities use that brand for sure. But there is also a lot of people who cant really afford to get iphone but still will just to show that they have money. there are people and a lot of them who care a lot how they look to others so they use the most trendy things even tough they hardly have food on the table and so on. Pay that 24 month loan for the phone too. There are not a large percent of people who buy out on the day of release these phones and need to have that 24-36 months plan

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                            • Anonymous
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                            • 30 Oct 2021

                            probably because of issues on xiaomi phones being updated, at least for entry level and midrangers - the price point where they sell more...

                              -Trix-, 30 Oct 2021"You have a cristal ball, haven't you? Serious... moreHave you read the article at all? Look at the picture maybe it's easier than reading. Yes Apple sold fewer phones than Xiaomi in the previous quarter. It isn't what "I thought". It is what is written in the article.

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                                • 30 Oct 2021

                                Anonimo, 30 Oct 2021You have a cristal ball, haven't you? Seriously, th... moreYou really don't know annual marketshare pattern. Just look at year and previous one, apple is always strong in q3 after new series release.

                                  Anonimo, 30 Oct 2021You have a cristal ball, haven't you? Seriously, th... more"You have a cristal ball, haven't you?

                                  Seriously, these Apple fanboys are unbearable"

                                  Are you serious with this? Just look the recent years, Q4 is Apple strongest quarter and they've been beating Samsung in recent years and you thought they will be behind Xiaomi? :D

                                  I doubt Xiaomi will sell close to 80 million phones this quarter.. and i doubt Samsung will do that either, why would Samsung sales grow so much suddenly when the trend been down for many years. In other hand Apple have ordered record amount iPhone 13 series for this end of the year.

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                                    • 30 Oct 2021

                                    -Trix-, 30 Oct 2021"Apple went up to second place this quarter because of... moreWith 15% market share, how in the hell they are dominating? If you sum all Android share are 85%. iOS is the same operating system since beginning. Just put an Android 12 on your shiny IPhone 13 and if is still the fastest smartphone. I'll bet it won't. Your new iPhone is like putting an Windows XP on the latest Intel I9. It will be the fastest computer of all.

                                      -Trix-, 30 Oct 2021"Apple went up to second place this quarter because of... moreYou have a cristal ball, haven't you?

                                      Seriously, these Apple fanboys are unbearable.

                                        Anonimo, 30 Oct 2021OK mate, I think you check the dictionary and read the mean... more"Apple went up to second place this quarter because of the new iPhones. It will probably be back in third place next quarter."

                                        Funny, Apple is actually number one next Q

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