Samsung may have played a pivotal role in the global smartphone market rebound of Q3 2017, beating financial record after record lately, and shaking off last year’s Note 7 fiasco like it was no big deal, but the chaebol’s 2018 growth is expected to stall.
Strategy Analytics forecasts the company’s Galaxy handsets will total around 319 million units in shipments this year, enough for a dominant 20.5 percent share of one of the world’s most highly competitive industries right now.
