Smartphone prices have been creeping up over $1,000 in recent years, but it was Apple’s less expensive iPhone XR that topped all other smartphones in shipments in the first half of 2019, says IHS Markit. The iPhone XR shipped nearly 30 million units in the first half of 2019, according to a Thursday report from the market analysts.
IHS Markit said 13.6 million iPhone XR units shipped in the first quarter and 13.3 million shipped in the second quarter — bringing the total to 26.9 million for the first half of the year. That’s more than double the number of Samsung Galaxy A10 phones, the No. 2 device on IHS Markit’s list, that shipped in the first half.
MacDailyNews Take: As intended and predicted.
The iPhone XR… will be the mass market iPhone, as Apple intends. They’ll move untold millions of them and, in the process, move 100+ million iPhone users from the antiquated Home button control paradigm into the gestural promised land. — MacDailyNews, September 13, 2018
Given that I’m oft required to swipe 4, 5 or 6 times before being granted access to my Home Screen, I’m missing that “antiquated” Home button more each day.
If your iPhone does not grant access, do not keep swiping, enter your passcode. The ML feature will learn that angle or variation is you. Many fewer multi-swipes will be required.
Which should tell Apple their phones have gotten too expensive
For me, the key takeaway was the last line of the CNET story:
“None of Samsung’s flagship Galaxy S10 phones made the list.”
I ‘downgraded’ to one from the plus series, and I love this thing. The camera is fantastic, it is snappy as hell, and I don’t regret a thing. It’s an awesome phone. I could not be happier with mine.
Analysts should also note that the 8 also outsold the XS…
I find it interesting that the Xs Max is third most popular 700,000 behind the little old A11 iPhone 8.