If we needed more confirmation that Huawei overtook Apple as the world’s second-largest handset maker, Gartner Research just delivered it. In the past quarter, Huawei’s phones held 13.3% of the global market share for smartphones, while Apple was third with 11.9%.
Huawei’s upward march, however, was not for the sake of Apple, whose piece of the global pie remained largely the same year-on-year, but rather for the sake of Samsung. The world’s number one maker saw its share dip from 22.6%, to 19.3%, due to tepid sales of its S9 flagship duo.
