Tag: Apple sales

March 26, 2020

Apple shares plummeted on news that the 5G iPhone 12 could be held up due to concerns over the global COVID-19 pandemic, Nikkei Asian Review reported on Wednesday (March 25), citing sources. Aside from supply chain issues, the tech giant […]

March 23, 2020

Last week, for certain products, Apple started limiting the number of units one customer could buy. Namely, the new iPad Pro (both the 11-inch and the 12.9-inch model) were limited to two per customer, and the new MacBook Air and […]

January 30, 2020

Huawei overtook Apple to become the world’s second best selling smartphone manufacturer in 2019, according to reports from Strategy Analytics, Counterpoint Research, and Canalys. Over the course of the year, the Chinese manufacturer reportedly shipped around 240 million phones, compared […]

December 19, 2019

Not that it should come as a huge surprise, but Apple made out like a bandit in the past two years, according to research firm Counterpoint. It captured the whopping 66% of the smartphone industry’s more than a hundred billion […]

November 26, 2019

It will come as a shock to no one: global smartphone sales have continued to decline in the third quarter of 2019. Still, it’s not doom and gloom for everyone. While Apple and Samsung ponder how to stimulate an ever-slower […]

October 23, 2019

The iPhone 11 launch saw iOS make market share gains in Europe, Australia and Japan, but it suffered a fall in share in its home market of the USA, according to Kantar. Kantar’s data for Q3 2019 includes only one […]

October 4, 2019

Soon after the iPhone 11 series started selling online a few days ago, several analysts came out with reports saying that preorders were above expectations, with the new iPhone 11 colors being the most popular with consumers. The new colors […]

July 23, 2019

After expecting a little too much from the iPhone XR, many analysts were quick to deem Apple’s lower-cost 2018 handset a flop. But when all is said and done, the $749 and up device has impressively managed to resist an […]

June 12, 2019

While Apple’s hardship in markets like China and India has been well-documented and much discussed in the last year or so, tracking a worrying trend of declining sales numbers and stagnant profits, the International Data Corporation (IDC) is out today […]

May 29, 2019

Apple placed third in worldwide smartphone sales in the first quarter of 2019, suggest new figures from Gartner. Samsung came in first place, with 71.6 million units sold in the three month period. Huawei followed in hot pursuit, with 58.4 […]

May 1, 2019

IDC and Strategy Analytics have released their latest smartphone shipment numbers, and the clear winner of the last few months has been China’s Huawei, at the expense of incumbent global leaders Samsung and Apple, both of which lost ground. Huawei […]

April 19, 2019

A recent Counterpoint Research paper indicated that the Galaxy S10 outsold the Galaxy S9 in the US in the first week by 16%. That same research contained a graphic (image below) that compared the performance of the Samsung phones with […]

January 25, 2019

Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) have been analyzing Apple’s fiscal quarter that ended December 29, 2018, and have released their findings. Apparently, the new iPhone Xs and iPhone Xs Max models accounted for 26% of iPhone sales in the U.S. […]

January 4, 2019

Apple has pulled the sales of the iPhone 7 and 8 from its German website and stores, following a ruling in the District Court of Munich. The ruling said that those two models of the iPhone were infringing on Qualcomm’s […]

November 2, 2018

Apple yesterday announced that it sold 46.89M iPhones in the previous quarter. The company’s staggered iPhone releases both this year and last make comparisons tricky, but the bottom line was slight growth of 0.5%. IDC data now puts that number […]

August 1, 2018

After Samsung and Huawei, it’s time for Apple to make its financial situation public for the third quarter of the year. The Cupertino company made $53.3 billion in revenue, and $11.5 billion in profit. This compares to $45.4 billion in […]