Apple is Biggest Smartphone Seller Outdoing Battered Huawei
The new features allured the iPhone lovers and the demand for the upgraded version surged even in China
Apple Inc has emerged as the world’s biggest smartphone seller in the fourth quarter after a neck-to-neck race with smartphone manufacturers Huawei and Samsung.
The available data from research conducted by IDC, Apple’s shipments went up by 22% in the fourth quarter.
Apple sold some 90.1 million smartphones and gained a market share of 23.4%. Apple clinched the top spot from Samsung which sold 73.9 million devices over the quarter.
Meanwhile, Huawei, which was expected to give fierce competition to Apple, only shipped 32.3 million devices.
The slump was a result of the US sanctions on the Chinese company.
Ex-US President Donald Trump had imposed sanctions on the Chinese tech giant on national security grounds.
The restrictions barred overseas companies from supplying key manufacturing parts to Huawei including semiconductors which is seemingly a reason why Apple emerged as the top smartphone seller in the race with Samsung and Huawei and even captured the Chinese market.
Apple shipped its iPhone 12 lineup and its first 5G-enabled devices.
The new features allured the iPhone lovers and the demand for the upgraded version surged even in China.
“We had two of the top three selling smartphones in urban China”, Apple CEO Tim Cook told Reuters in an interview.
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The sale volume of Apple gadgets in Hong Kong and Taiwan recorded an increase of 57%.
With no hopes of ban removal, Huawei is deliberating to retire from smartphone making as the tech giant was battered by the US sanctions that are unlikely to be removed in near future.
