Samsung flooded world markets their smartphones. Apple, LG … – Gazeta.pl

In the first quarter of this year, global markets went 281.5 million smartphones. That’s about 28% more than the previous year (218.8 million).. Compared with the fourth, “festive” quarter of last year, the result is lower by 2.8%.

At the same time significantly increased the share of smartphones sold in boxes – one year ago it was 50.7% today smart phones to 62.7% of sales.

The following table shows the volume of supplies (Shipment Volumes) and participation in the global market (market share). As you can see Samsung outclassed rivals in both categories – delivered to sell 85 million smartphones. A year ago it was 69.7 million. As for the market share it lost 1.7% of Koreans (now the result is 30.2%, a year ago it was 31.9%). Despite the increase in the volume of deliveries (43.7 million to 37.4 million) market share lost to Apple (15.5% instead of 17.1%). But it is the only company that – apart from the leader – reached double-digit score.

Fig. IDC

If you count the time that Apple and LG , Lenovo and Huawei would appear that the total supply to the markets of less than Samsung devices. The total share of the global smartphone market would also be smaller (would be 29.4%).

IDC, the company that developed the above analysis predicts that the market this year will hit 1.2 billion smartphones. A year ago it was 1 billion pieces so market will grow 19.3% per cent. This is much less than in the record year of 2013 when it went into distribution by 39.2% more smartphones than a year earlier.

The demand for smartphones continues to grow – especially testifies to the increasing number of delivered equipment of this type. Somewhat surprising as low market share are as solid brands like LG and Lenovo. Samsung, and even Apple, they seem to be absolutely beyond the reach of the competition.

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