Remember when everyone said the Note 7 recall and the ensuing fallout would send Samsung fans flocking to the iPhone 7 Plus? Well that turned out not to be the case.
According to new figures, the biggest disaster in smartphone history did hurt Samsung, but Apple was not an obvious beneficiary, according to new figures.
Samsung’s shipments dropped 14% compared to the same period of last year, Gartner said, which remained enough to earn 19.2% of the entire mobile industry.
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According to the research, Apple’s sales of 43 million iPhones accounted for 11.2% of all smartphone sales.
So if Apple didn’t mop-up all of those disenfranchised Samsung fans, who did?
Of course the vast majority of these gains came in China, where sales of smartphones grew by 12.4 per cent.
Samsung’s comeback from its worst sales slump in two years will commence with the eagerly-anticipated Galaxy S8 handset, which we’re expecting to see in February.
Is the Galaxy S8 already the most important Samsung phone release ever?
If the company ever needed to nail a smartphone it was this one. Are you remaining a Samsung loyalist in spite of the last few months’ shenanigans?
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