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iPhone SE boost means Apple now accounts for almost half of US smartphone sales

August 14, 2020

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Apple’s budget-friendly iPhone SE helped Apple’s share of US smartphone shipments rise by 10% in the second quarter of the year.

Apple shipped 15 million iPhones to the US in Q2 2020, leaving it with a giant marketshare of 47.1%, up from 40.8% in the corresponding quarter last year, according to analyst firm Canalys.

A key factor in that growth was the iPhone SE 2, which Apple launched in April, amid COVID-19 lockdowns across the globe when most of Apple’s retail outlets were closed. The iPhone SE has the latest A13 Bionic processor in an iPhone 8 body.

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