India’s telecom ministry has directed Apple and other phone manufacturers to factory-install an un-deletable, state-owned “cybersecurity”…
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Apple sues former Apple Watch staffer alleging theft of trade secrets for Oppo
Apple is suing a former Apple Watch team employee who left to join Oppo, alleging that he “conspired to steal Apple’s trade secrets…
Apple iPhone leads China Q424 smartphone market share – IDC
According to preliminary data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, China’s…
IDC: Apple’s iPhone maintained lead in worldwide smartphone shipments and market share in 2024
According to IDC, for the year 2024, Apple’s iPhone maintained lead in worldwide smartphone shipments and market share…
Worldwide smartphone market grows 6.5% in Q224 as momentum continues to build IDC
According to IDC, global smartphone shipments increased 6.5% year over year to 285.4 million units in the second quarter of 2024 (2Q24)…
Chinese smartphone market grows 6.5% in Q1; Apple iPhone declines 6.6%
China smartphone shipments grew 6.5% year over year (YoY) to 69.3 million units in 1Q24. Although the growth was supported by a low…
Apple becomes top volume seller of smartphones
With its seminal iPhone, Apple ended Samsung Electronics 12-year run as the largest volume seller of smartphones worldwide, commanding a…
Apple becomes the world’s biggest smartphone maker in 2023; iPhone grabs record high market share
A shift of power at the top of the smartphone market was driven by all-time high market share for Apple’s iPhone and a first time at the top…
Global smartphone market grows 2% in Q3 over Q2; Apple’s iPhone share at 16%
Global smartphone sell-through volumes fell 8% YoY in Q3 2023, the ninth consecutive quarter to record a decline, but grew 2% QoQ…
Apple iPhone grew 6.1% in China as overall Chinese smartphone market declined 7.3% in Q2
Apple’s iPhone grew 6.1% in China even as the overall Chinese smartphone market declined 7.3% YoY in the second quarter of 2023…
Apple iPhone was only top five smartphone brand to grow globally year-over-year in Q1
Apple, with 58.0 million shipments, was the only top five vendor to grow year-on-year, which gave the company a strong 21% share…
Apple iPhone dominates Q4 smartphone shipments, market share despite CCP ‘Zero COVID’ factory shutdowns
Apple’s iPhone dominated worldwide smartphone shipments and increased market share over imitators, according to IDC…
As only Apple sees growth among major smartphone makers, Qualcomm sees smartphone slump worsening
As only Apple’s iPhone shows growth among major smartphone makers, citing increasingly higher rates of Android switchers, Qualcomm …
Apple iPhone sales grow while global smartphone market falls 9% in Q3 as consumers trim spending
Apple was the only vendor in the top five to record positive growth, improving its market position further with an 18% share during…
Gartner: Apple iPhone No.1 in global smartphone sales in Q421
Worldwide smartphone sales grew 6% in 2021, according to Gartner. Apple iPhone sales in 2021 grew 7.6% over 2020. Smartphone sales…
China’s Oppo cuts jobs after trying to compete with Apple’s iPhone
After trying to compete in the premium smartphone segment with Apple’s iPhone, phone maker Oppo is cutting around 20% of staff in…
Apple iPhone shipments grow 15.7% YOY in Europe in Q2
According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, Apple iPhone shipments grew 15.7% year-over-year in Europe in calendar Q2…
Apple’s Q2 iPhone shipments up 17.8% year-over-year – IDC
Apple’s iPhone shipments in the second calendar quarter are up 17.8% year-over-year, according to International Data Corporation (IDC)…
Apple iPhone 12 sales in China reach nearly 18 million units in 4Q20
Sales of the iPhone 12 lineup in the China market were outperformed expectations in the fourth quarter of 2020, reaching a rather amazing…
Apple’s iPhone 11 is the world’s best selling smartphone this year – by far
Apple’s iPhone 11 was the world’s most-shipped smartphone in the first half of 2020. According to Omdia’s Smartphone Model Market Tracker…
Gartner: iPhone sales dropped 8.2% in Q120 amid COVID-19 shutdown
Global smartphone sales to end users declined 20.2% in the first quarter of 202 (Q120), according to Gartner, Inc. The global shelter-in-place combined…
Apple boosts smartphone market share in China – Canalys
Apple captured a greater percentage of China’s smartphone market share in the first quarter, according to data from research firm Canalys…
iPhone takes 24.3% smartphone share across five major EU markets
Data reveals that Apple’s iPhone accounts for 24.3% of all smartphone sales across the five major European markets (EU5), with share also up across Urban China, USA, Japan and Australia…
Strategy Analytics: Apple iPhone captured 13% global smartphone marketshare in Q119
According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, global smartphone shipments fell 4 percent…
Apple continues to dominate premium smartphone market with 51% global share
Apple continues to lead global premium smartphone segment by capturing more than half of the market…
Gartner: Apple’s iPhone unit sales suffered worst quarterly decline since first quarter of 2016
Global sales of smartphones to end users stalled in the fourth quarter of 2018…
IDC: Samsung edges Apple as smartphone woes continue with worldwide shipments down 4.9% in holiday quarter
Smartphone vendors shipped a total of 375.4 million units during the fourth quarter of 2018…
China’s smartphone market dropped 14% in 2018, with just under 400 million units shipped
In 2018, smartphone shipments in China fell to their lowest level since 2013…
Apple launches trade-in program in China to get Android users to upgrade to iPhones
Apple is having a rough quarter selling iPhones to Chinese consumers…
Apple’s revolutionary iPhone continues to own the premium smartphone market
According to Counterpoint Research’s Market Monitor Q3 2018, the global premium smartphone segment…
Mark Zuckerberg loses $16 billion in record Facebook fall
Facebook Inc Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg’s fortune took an almost $16 billion hit on Thursday…
Facebook stock plunges as users vanish
Facebook Inc’s stock fell as much as 24 percent after hours on Wednesday over concerns…
The 18 things you may not realize Facebook knows about you: Firm reveals the extent of its spying in a 454-page document to U.S. Congress
The creepy ways Facebook spies on its users have been detailed in a bumper document…
Facebook confirms sharing users’ personal data with Chinese companies
Facebook Inc said Tuesday it has data sharing partnerships with at least four Chinese companies…
Apple iPhone surpasses Samsung to become world’s No.1 smartphone brand
According to the latest research from Counterpoint’s Market Monitor service…
Apple’s iPhone 7 Plus was the 2nd-best selling phone in China last year; Apple was only foreign brand in the top ten
Apple was the only foreign brand to have a smartphone model in the top 10 best-selling handsets…
TrendForce: Apple to overtake Samsung in worldwide market share thanks to iPhone X
TrendForce estimates that the iPhone production volume for this fourth quarter will reach 81 million units with iPhone X accounting for 33% of the total…
Canalys: Apple’s iPhone 8 Plus outsold iPhone 8 in Q3 2017
Apple’s iPhone 7 was the world’s best-shipping smartphone in Q3 2017, with 13.0 million units shipped…
Apple’s iOS rises again in urban China; iPhone 7/Plus easily outsells Samsung Galaxy S8/Plus in the U.S.A.
Apple’s iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus remained the top sellers during the May period with combined share of…
Strategy Analytics: Apple iPhone 7 the world’s best-selling smartphone model in Q117
According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, Apple iPhone 7…
IDC: Worldwide smartphone market gains steam in Q117 with shipments up 4.3%
According to preliminary results from the International Data Corporation Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, phone companies shipped a total of 347.4 million smartphones worldwide…
Despite weakness in China, aspirational Apple brand remains strong around the world
A new analyst report sees Apple outperforming an expanding premiums smartphone market…
