A recent study by Gartner has revealed an interesting feature: in the first quarter China's market leader, Apple began with the growth in sales of smartphones by 72.5%, although still there were leading local manufacturers. Xiaomi was eventually forced to settle for second place. The global market for smartphones in the first quarter grew by 19.3% compared to the same period last year, to 336 million Products. Thus, to talk about saturation is not necessary .
However, except for China, it is the Chinese brand and local steelmakers engine of growth of the smartphone market in countries with growing economies. They showed a growth in sales of 73%, and their share in the local market increased from 38% to 47%. World's top ten mobile phone manufacturers (see. Table 3), starting from the fifth position, now form the Chinese and Indian manufacturers.
Samsung continues to give competitors, now that the company controls no more than 24.2% of the smartphone market. Apple globally closing the gap with the leader - from the Korean giant it separates about 20 million Smartphone. However, the new family of devices Galaxy S6 will help Samsung. At least in comparison with the fourth quarter last year, the company managed to increase sales volumes by 11%. Apple has for the year increased its market share from 15.3% to 17.9%.
Google Android operating system passed the growing popularity of iPhone, although the current 78.9% of the market for smartphone software platforms - it's almost a monopoly. iOS increased its share from 15.3% to 17.9%, is strictly proportional to the number of smartphones sold. The popularity of the iPhone in China for the first time in the history of the local market forced the sales volume of Android-smartphone reduced by 4%. The efforts of Microsoft to promote Windows Phone are failing - from last year's 2.7%, it has slipped to 2.5%. BlackBerry still holds 0.4% of the market, although in the past year its share was half as much.
In conjunction with smart phones, the mobile phone market in the first quarter rose 2.5% to 460.3 million Devices. Samsung in the sample remains the leader with 21.3% market share, and Microsoft holds a strong third place with Nokia brand products , second only to Apple. Related Products :
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