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Apple Continues to Lead Smartphone Market in 2018, Oppo Makes Significant Gains: Counterpoint

Apple Continues to Lead Smartphone Market in 2018, Oppo Makes Significant Gains: Counterpoint 55136j

By Gadgets 360 Staff | Updated: 16 April 2019 17:36 IST

Apple ed for the 51 percent of all worldwide smartphone shipments 6e5f1m

Highlights

Samsung ed for 22 percent of the shipments
Oppo’s market share jumped from 1 percent for 6 percent
OnePlus entered top five smartphone brands in 2018

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Apple has maintained its lead in the worldwide smartphone market even as the iPhone maker lost 7 percent of market share in 2018, a research report has revealed. Samsung, which currently sits at the second spot, also lost one percent of the market, whereas the like of Huawei and Oppo made significant gains. 2018 was also the first year when OnePlus entered the top five in the worldwide smartphone market since the company's entry in the smartphone market five years ago.

According to the latest Market Monitor OnePlus with 2 percent.

The overall smartphone market grew 14 percent year-over-year, driven by the launch of new iPhone models and phones from the Chinese smartphone makers. Oppo with 863 percent growth, OnePlus with 209 percent, and Xiaomi with 149 percent were the fastest growing brands in the segment.

In of the regions, Asia Pacific saw the fastest growth in smartphone shipments at 27 percent. Indian smartphone market grew 14 percent, whereas China's shipments grew 37 percent. In India, Samsung took the top spot, followed by OnePlus, Apple, Huawei, and Vivo.

Among other titbits from the report, OnePlus recorded its highest ever shipments in a single quarter (Q4 2018) in India. Google entered the top five smartphone vendors in Western Europe last year, and most of Oppo's growth came from the Chinese market.

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