With the fierce rival ongoing between Samsung and Apple regarding smartphone sales over the years, it's Samsung again that has left Apple's iPhone in the third position in April sales. According to Counterpoint Market Pulse April edition, that released its global top selling smartphones list for the month of April, Samsung Galaxy S9+ tops the list. The second spot has also been grabbed by Samsung's Galaxy S9. Sadly, Apple is able to grab the third spot with the iPhone X. iPhone X was the leader conquering the top spot all of 2018, and this is the first time that it lost the leading spot to Samsung phones. The top ten global smartphones list has Xiaomi's Redmi 5A and Redmi 5 Plus/Note 5 smartphones as well.
The rise in smartphones sales of Samsung is mostly contributed by the attacking number of sale in North Pacific and Asia Pacific region. Samsung takes the top two spots with 2.6 percent market share while Apple iPhone X and iPhone 8 Plus take the third and fourth spots with 2.3 percent global market share. Although, Apple was dominating the market share in the first quarter of 2018 and this has a little impact on their sales as Apple claims this as seasonal only.
Even though Samsung tops the list on the basis of market share for the Samsung Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+, Apple is still dominating the current global smartphone market occupying five spots in the list.Also the report states that the demand for the iPhone 7 is still very strong in the Asia Pacific and North America regions.The Samsung Galaxy S8 is also mentioned in Counterpoint's Market Pulse April Edition due to price cuts, along with aggressive marketing, easy EMIs, and cashback offer as well.
In the previous quarter, iPhone X took the top spot with 3.5 percent market share. The iPhone X dominated the whole first quarter to be the number one smartphone, only to see a fall in April. Even Strategy Analytics declared the iPhone X as the best-selling smartphone in the first quarter of 2018.
Xiaomi grabbed two spots in April Edition but was not able to make it to the top five as it took the third spot in March with the Redmi 5A. But in the month of April, it grabbed the sixth and the eighth position with its Redmi 5A and Redmi 5 Plus / Redmi Note 5 due to its performance in China and India.
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