While last year you Apple thanks to larger iPhones, it has improved significantly and started to fight with Samsung for the top spot, this year it no longer looks like that. As the analysis company Strategy Analytics showed, in the first quarter of the fiscal year 2015, Samsung maintained its dominant position in the world of smartphones and even sold significantly more phones than a year ago, when it had big problems. The South Korean giant sold only slightly more smartphones than a year ago Apple and in terms of millions, both sold approximately 74,5 million phones during the pre-Christmas period.
However, in the 2016 fiscal year, Samsung stepped on the right foot and sold 81,3 million phones, which is significantly more than Apple. The latter improved only minimally compared to last year – it sold only 74,8 million iPhones, which is 300 units more than a year ago. In this regard, Samsung can thank above all the new and attractive design of its phones, which favorably helps the sales of its devices. Series Galaxy A (2016), which consists of aluminum and glass, could only help this quarter.
Overall, the smartphone market grew by 12% last year, and while only 2014 billion smartphones were sold in 1,28, in 2015 it was 1,44 billion. Samsung dominated this market, selling 319,7 million phones. He finished in second place Apple with 231,5 million iPhones and a surprise is Huawei, which sold 107,1 million phones during the past year, placing it in third place.
*Source: MacRumors
