In the October-December period of last year, a perfect storm catapulted Apple to become the world’s largest smartphone vendor. Apple beat Samsung by a hair, shipping 78.3 million iPhones in the holiday quarter, against 77.5 million for the Korean conglomerate.
Granted, it took a bungled Note 7 battery pack, and a lot of new customers for Apple who came attracted by the inventive dual camera set of the iPhone 7 Plus, but who’s to say that this won’t be replicated again n Q4 2017 with the eventual launch of an OLED iPhone 8, too.
