While the global smartphone market suffered its steepest third-quarter decline in more than a decade, Apple emerged as the clear winner…
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India orders Apple, other phone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app that cannot be deleted
India’s telecom ministry has directed Apple and other phone manufacturers to factory-install an un-deletable, state-owned “cybersecurity”…
Sales of foreign-branded phones, including Apple’s iPhone, in China down 31.3% in June
In June 2025, shipments of foreign-branded smartphones, including Apple Inc.’s iPhone, plummeted 31.3% year-on-year in China…
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)…
After slashing iPhone prices in China, Apple’s sales are bouncing back strongly
Apple’s iPhone sales in China are surging again, fueled by aggressive price cuts that are tempting budget-conscious consumers in the…
Ahead of new iPads, Apple took 35.2% share of worldwide tablet market in Q1
Apple faced a bit of a lull last year due to the poor economy and the absence of new iPad models and declined 8.5% year over year. The…
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 again the world’s top semiconductor buyer in 2022
According to preliminary results by Gartner. Apple remained the world’s top semiconductor buyer in 2022. The company…
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 Xiaomi vows ‘War of Life and Death’ against Apple iPhone; pledges to open 20,000 retail stores in China
Apple iPhone knockoff peddler Xiaomi will ratchet up its challenge to Apple by focusing on the high-end segment of the global smartphone…
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)…
IDC: Apple is the clear leader in the worldwide wearables market
Apple is the clear leader in the worldwide wearables market. According to new data from the International Data Corporation…
Apple’s iPhone 12 lineup displays its 5G dominance
Last October, Apple’s iPhone 12 lineup quickly climbed the charts to become the best-selling 5G smartphone – despite being on sale for just…
Apple continues to dominate worldwide wearables market
Apple continues to dominate the worldwide wearables market as shipments of wearable devices reached 153.5 million in the Q420…
Gartner: Apple extends lead as the No. 1 semiconductor chip buyer in 2020
Apple remained the No. 1 semiconductor chip buyer in 2020, representing 11.9% of the total worldwide market, according to preliminary…
China’s Xiaomi devices added to U.S. military blacklist, shares plunge
The shares of China’s Xiaomi, the world’s third-largest maker of smartphones, plunged in Hong Kong trade on Friday after the U.S. DOJ…
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…
IDC: Apple again dominates worldwide wearables market
Global shipments of wearables grew 29.7% year over year during the first quarter of 2020 (1Q20) as total device volume reached 72.6 million units…
Xiaomi co-founder Lei Jun caught posting from his Apple iPhone
Today Lei Jun, Xiaomi’s CEO and co-founder, inadvertently revealed that he uses an Apple iPhone at least occasionally, and not one Xiaomi’s…
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…
Xiaomi claims China smartphone sales already close to full recovery
Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi Corp is seeing signs of a sales recovery in China, it said on Tuesday, as the country claims it is returning to normal…
Apple’s iPhone XR, the world’s bestselling smartphone in 2019
The iPhone XR was the world’s bestselling smartphone in 2019, easily out-shipping all other models and extending Apple’s record…
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…
Xiaomi gears up to peddle Apple Watch knockoff
As Xiaomi gears up to launch its 108-megapixel phone at its November 5th event, the company has also unveiled details…
Beleaguered Samsung ends mobile phone production in China
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd has ended mobile telephone production in China…
Xiaomi uses Apple’s ads for its Memoji knockoff inventively called ‘Mimoji’
After Xiaomi protesting that of course its ‘Mimoji’ is nothing like Apple’s practically identical Memoji..
Xiaomi uses Apple Memoji ad to push ‘Mimoji’ clone, says it was ‘accident’
Just in case you missed that discussion about China and intellectual property, here’s Xiaomi’s latest Apple-related ‘accident’…
IDC: Apple No.1 in Q418 worldwide wearables shipments with 16.2 million units, 10.4 million of which were Apple Watches
The worldwide market for wearable devices grew 31.4% during the fourth quarter of 2018…
When Apple’s iPhone doesn’t change, knock off-happy Android phone peddlers don’t know what to do
Things are about to get weird…
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…
Apple’s HomePod shipments surged 45% in holiday quarter
Smart speakers were the hottest consumer electronics product in 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…
