Apple Beats Samsung to Become Top Smartphone Vendor in 2022

Ever since Apple tree released its 5G-supported iPhone 12 series, the devices have been selling like hotcakes in the market place. As a consequence of this massive demand, nosotros saw the company top the charts in a Counterpoint Research report recently. Now, as per another research report, Apple tree has claimed the top spot, shipping more than iPhone units than Samsung, in the final quarter of 2020 after four whole years.

As per a recent Gartner report, Apple became the top smartphone vendor in Q4 of 2020, beating Samsung in the run. The study states that the final time Apple was in the top spot, in a higher place Samsung was in the fourth quarter of 2016, which was 4 years agone.

This year, even so, with the launch of the iPhone 12 series, Apple was able to retake the top spot as a smartphone vendor. The Cupertino giant sold almost 80 1000000 iPhone units at the end of last twelvemonth. This reportedly helped Apple tree record double-digit growth and surpass Samsung.

Apple beats samsung as top phone vendor — Source: Gartner

Apart from this, Gartner too reports that global smartphone sales declined by 5.iv% in the terminal quarter of 2020. And as per its full-year chart, smartphone sales declined by 12.5%.

"The sales of more 5G smartphones and lower-to-mid-tier smartphones minimized the market place pass up in the fourth quarter of 2020. Fifty-fifty as consumers remained cautious in their spending and held off on some discretionary purchases, 5G smartphones and pro-photographic camera features encouraged some end users to purchase new smartphones or upgrade their current smartphones in the quarter," said Anshul Gupta, the Senior Research Director at Gartner.

The report also states that despite Samsung'due south yr-on-year decline of 14.6% in smartphone sales, the South Korean behemothic retained its No. 1 spot as a global smartphone vendor in the whole of 2020. Moreover, Apple tree and Xiaomi were the only two companies amidst the pinnacle five to experience growth as smartphone vendors last year.

"In 2021, the availability of lower end 5G smartphones and innovative features will be deciding factors for end users to upgrade their existing smartphones. The ascent demand for affordable 5G smartphones exterior China will boost smartphone sales in 2021," Gupta added further.