DSCC: foldable shipments rise 571% in Q1, Galaxy Z Flip3 dominates market with 51% share

01 June 2022
The Huawei P50 Pocket was the third most popular foldable after the Z Flip3 and Z Fold3. No other brand has more than 2.5% market share.

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Anonymous, 02 Jun 2022"It's LTPO 1.0/2.0 OLED. Guess who innovated that... moreLTPO is a type of OLED you absolute genius. Just like AMOLED is also an OLED display and SuperAMOLED is also an OLED display. LMAO XD I suggest you stop making fool of yourself. Like, seriously.

    Anonymous, 02 Jun 2022You're trying hard to misrepresent what I said as some... moreI'm not trying to (mis)represent anything. I'm just correcting your utter lack of knowledge about pretty much anything talked here, particularly how R&D, design and manufacturing works. You seem to have no concept of what FABLESS means. Apple is a FABLESS company just like AMD, NVIDIA and ARM. They don't physically manufacture anything. Apple researches, designs products and then hands them over to the actual manufacturers who do this kind of thing for a long time and have required expertise to materialize the designs. Has anyone been parading around how NVIDIA actually hasn't innovated anything just because they never actually made a graphic card themselves? GPU is made by Samsung/TSMC and entire graphic cards are made by board partners like Gigabyte or ASUS. Even Founders Edition cards are not made by NVIDIA itself. They use a certain board partner to manufacture their own designs. I don't see anyone accusing NVIDIA of "not innovating because they don't manufacture anything themselves". Yet here you are screaming about the exact same thing, but directed at Apple. You're utterly clueless and willfully ignorant on top of that. I suggest you stop talking because you're just making a complete fool of yourself. Then again, be my guest and continue...

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      SShock, 02 Jun 2022Ah yes, totally. Want to know what kind of displays all the... more"It's LTPO 1.0/2.0 OLED. Guess who innovated that. Yup, you didn't guessed it, it was Apple"

      Apple invented LTPO and not OLED. Once again, all just lies from you

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        • 02 Jun 2022

        SShock, 02 Jun 2022Your absolute and complete lack of understanding how produc... moreYou're trying hard to misrepresent what I said as something else but keep trying because you fail, as always. No one believes your BS hah. The iPhones so called industry leading AMOLED panels are not completely their work, more like just a small a part of the panels' specification is improved by Apple, because as I said before, they just take up something existing and improve it slightly, to take up all the credit on the entire hardware. All the pre-work had been done by someone else, Samsung here for example. Also, Comparing chipset with displays is absolutely dumb.

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          SShock, 02 Jun 2022Your last sentence clearly shows you don't understand ... more"Apple bad, everyone else good, reeeee is the usual daily thing..."

          And it is exactly the opposite for iFans. They be like, Apple is best, and android phones are all cheap and for poor people

            Anonymous, 02 Jun 2022That display is manufactured by Samsung because Apple can&#... moreYour absolute and complete lack of understanding how products are researched, developed and made is really showing now. I guess AMD, NVIDIA and ARM are also nothing because they can't actually make a single chip themselves. Hell, AMD and NVIDIA are so clueless they can't even manufacture their own graphic cards either. Wow, so useless! Literally your level of reasoning. It's beyond laughable. And you people are always the loudest around here. Always.

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              • 02 Jun 2022

              SShock, 02 Jun 2022Ah yes, totally. Want to know what kind of displays all the... moreThat display is manufactured by Samsung because Apple can't do that themselves, just like how they can't manufacture even a single screw on their own, and require supplier for every component in the iPhone. And that LTPO is an advancement of tech, which itself was made by Samsung (Super AMOLED panel) You can tune a Supra to a thousand HP, but that don't mean anything. All credit goes to manufacturer. Basically what Apple, like always does, is to take up existing tech and tweak it and introduce it as their own

              They can't build the iPhone without hundreds of suppliers in Asia. Such is their incredible dependency on others

                Anonymous, 02 Jun 2022Sensor Shifting OIS is just a fancy name for new gen OIS th... moreYour last sentence clearly shows you don't understand any of it. Just because someone MAKES it doesn't invalidate R&D and actual innovation. If you haven't noticed, Apple is a FABLESS company just like AMD or ARM. Are you going to dismiss AMD's innovation just because TSMC makes it for them and not AMD itself? Same for ARM. They don't manufacture ANYTHING. They just design and develop new ARM CPU cores and license the designs to others like Qualcomm or Samsung. Does that mean ARM doesn't innovate at all? Does that mean AMD doesn't innovate at all? LG makes the displays just because they have the factories to make displays. That doesn't invalidate Apple's involvement in the design of this new display type. Then again, who am I kidding thinking anyone actually cares about details here, Apple bad, everyone else good, reeeee is the usual daily thing...

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                  SShock, 02 Jun 2022Ah yes, totally. Want to know what kind of displays all the... moreSensor Shifting OIS is just a fancy name for new gen OIS that Sony, Samsung, Huawei and Xiaomi was already developing. Maximum Performance that cannot be used by the most demanding games like Mir4 and Genshin Impact due to induced throttling. That "revolutionary" screen are made by LG.

                    Anonymous, 02 Jun 2022While it maybe true that when they release their foldable, ... more” And also, a segment which is growing in hundreds of percentage every year is not going to fade away anytime soon”

                    Every year? Listen to yourself, if something grows hundreds of percentage every year it just means the sales from the start was really small. There won’t be any hundreds of percents growing happening anymore. Only 2.2 million foldables sold Q1 with much lower price and huge marketing. Next Q the numbers will be even less, because no-one can keep the foldable sales going on until flip 4 comes. Also second hand stores are full of these with half the price, it just shows the novelty already fading away. Foldables just weren’t what people expected them to be and i can’t say i’m surprised.

                    Look https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=Huawei%20p50%20pocket,Galaxy%20fold%203,Galaxy%20z%20flip%203,Galaxy%20s22 even with big marketing, there’s no growing interest, peak happened last fall and after that it’s been very silent.

                      Anonymous, 02 Jun 2022Apple and innovation don't go together. More like appl... moreAh yes, totally. Want to know what kind of displays all the top of the line phones use? It's LTPO 1.0/2.0 OLED. Guess who innovated that. Yup, you didn't guessed it, it was Apple. Top of the line chipsets that are usually a year ahead of everyone else in performance? Yup, Apple again. Sensor shifting OIS, I believe it was a first in mobile devices by Apple as well. But sure, Apple totally doesn't innovate at all...

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                        SShock, 02 Jun 2022Oh boy, I'm glad you said that. I can now use it every... moreApple and innovation don't go together. More like apple and greed. That sounds accurate

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                          -Trix-, 02 Jun 2022"Also remember that what you call cons are just curren... moreWhile it maybe true that when they release their foldable, any cons will be maybe fixed but remember, that will not be because of any apple wizardry, but because of overall evolution of the foldable tech itself, driven by Chinese and Korean companies. If apple was any capable of perfection then they would've released it already by now. The fact that they still haven't, after years of foldables being on sale on the market only proves that apple is incapable of making it, just like Google. And when apple finally releases it, it will be just like what's on sale by other brands, nothing out of ordinary

                          And also, a segment which is growing in hundreds of percentage every year is not going to fade away anytime soon

                            Anonymous, 02 Jun 2022"No one haven't yet bested the foldable design, i... more"Also remember that what you call cons are just current limitations of technology and Apple won't be offering anything much different in 2025."

                            The day Apple release one (if that comes), the biggest limitations have been fixed if it's possible, i'm sure about this. Apple won't release fragile beta product, they have brand name to protect.

                            Foldables also just might be thing which fades away quickly and companies jump to next thing. I mean there's very small amount of interest towards foldables.

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                              SShock, 02 Jun 2022Oh boy, I'm glad you said that. I can now use it every... moreIf they make some, gladly use it...

                                blue, 02 Jun 2022It's not our or Samsung's problem, that you can&#... moreOh boy, I'm glad you said that. I can now use it every single time people are whining over Apple's innovation...

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                                  -Trix-, 02 Jun 2022"Samsung as usual most innovative brand out there"... more"No one haven't yet bested the foldable design, it has many cons"


                                  At least they try to offer what's possible, meanwhile apple can't even make one, hence they give excuses. Also remember that what you call cons are just current limitations of technology and Apple won't be offering anything much different in 2025. The technology would have evolved and apple fold will be almost the same in hardware as others

                                    Anonymous, 01 Jun 2022Samsung as usual most innovative brand out there. Apple wil... more"Samsung as usual most innovative brand out there"

                                    It doesn't mean that others doesn't innovate if they don't show it to the world right away... Samsung is known to wanting to be first and try what sticks and what doesn't.

                                    Others might just wait right time, just like you said, no-one haven't yet bested the foldable design, it has many cons. That's why many doesn't currently want to release fodable because they don't think it's good enough.

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                                      SShock, 02 Jun 2022You weirdos and your obsession with "muh innovation&qu... moreIt's not our or Samsung's problem, that you can't see innovation.

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                                        uzername, 02 Jun 2022The S22 ultra could really use SD 8+ Gen1. I guess I will w... more23 ultra will use 8 gen 2 instead of 8+ gen 1 tho

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