Needless photo finish to see who leads the global market for smartphones . Samsung has widened the distance in a year in 15 out of Apple. According to the latest data from IDC, in the first quarter of the year when even the South Korean firm had put up for sale the Galaxy S4, their smartphones obtained 32.7% of the market, when a year earlier was 28.8 %.
Apple
growth is insufficient to reduce the distance, on the contrary, increases. Sales rose 6.6%, selling 37.4 million iPhone, but that only represents 17.3% of the booming sector, where a year ago was 23%. He has lost six points. Apple sells more and more, but it looks less in the field of smartphones .
Apple
can only compete with a high end phone, while Samsung encrypts your success in smartphones of medium and low price. As a result, 70.7 million sold in three months, 60% more than a year ago. At this time the Korean company has sold more smartphones that its next four competitors: Apple, LG, Huawei and ZTE. All except the Apple brand, have gained market share.
In the coming years, smartphones Half price (under 400 euros) and small price (below 250) will maintain the growth of the industry, it is essential Apple mobile remove other prices if market wants to see reduced to less than 10%. Although in this sense, Tim Cook, in the presentation of results on Tuesday, did not disclose any projects.
2018, according to research firm ABI, smartphones Half price will triple, while the high-end only doubled.
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