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Apple and Huawei Close Gap on Samsung in Global Smartphone Market
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If you like android and don't want a samsung phone. I guess.
Maybe cost is playing a part too.
Like a complete lack of privacy.
Kind of hard to do when none of them report any sales figures other than Apple. Notice Samsung used to report Galaxy sales figures when they were good but stopped once they fell off the cliff.
Because the phones that contribute mostly to their share are the cheap ones with low to zero margins. It shows that their high margin devices like the Galaxy S and Note series don't make up the bulk of their sales.
Huawei got kicked out of a big Internet infrastructure project in Australia because they were putting spyware in their equipment.
Small price to pay so that Touch ID works better than the one in Motorola Atrix, 3D Touch works better than the implementation in the BlackBerry Storm, A9 chip performs twice as fast per core with a fraction of the clock speed compared to top of the line Android phones, and etc...
But yeah, we're getting ripped off by those greedy businessman. How dare they try to make a profit?
No company is perfect, but Apple does so many more things right than others. Given that you can afford their products, there really isn't anything comparable.
This +1.
There's not much left to ask to a smartphone these days, especially for those who use their phones at a barely (in my opinion) 20% of its potential. Facebook, light browsing, some photos and chats. The technical gap between premium products and cheaper offerings it's decreasing.
But does anyone think either Huawei or Xiaomi will even create a dent in the developed markets? China, sure, but anything outside of china? Hard to see at the moment.
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What was the spin yesterday about number or percentage of iPhones sold in China? I thought I read that the bulk of gains were from sales there. Is that not true? I went and grabbed 3 quotes...
From comments like those, it looks like Apple is hanging a bigger and bigger hat on China to grow revenues in the future. So if we pooh, pooh China like it doesn't matter if Huawei/Xiaomi could gain dominance there, we are probably spinning something as unimportant that actually is KEY to Apple's overall revenue growth future... per Apple's own opinions of China's potential/importance to Apple.
From comments like those, it looks like Apple is hanging a bigger and bigger hat on China to grow revenues in the future. So if we pooh, pooh China like it doesn't matter if Huawei/Xiaomi could gain dominance there, we are probably spinning something as unimportant that actually is KEY to Apple's overall revenue growth future... per Apple's own opinions of China's potential/importance to Apple.
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I speak only for my country (Italy), but I've seen a lot of Huawei phones in the wild. They are aggressively promoted.
Can't say the same for Xiaomi phones
No HTC in those figures ?
An oversight or they are doing too bad to be on the table ? That would be a shame as their products are alot better than Samsung
An oversight or they are doing too bad to be on the table ? That would be a shame as their products are alot better than Samsung
That means Apple should count all iPhone stocked at Apple stores and third parties too? Nope. Apple reported actual unit sold, not shipped ever. Look at their earning report. Others? Nothing on earning reports.
Watch for copying? They're copying everyone left and right to make their own: some from Samsung, HTC, Sony and Apple...boom= Huawei phone is born.
http://www.engadget.com/2015/10/28/huawei-hires-former-apple-creative-lead/
Huawei hires a former Apple director to design its phone software
Huawei hires a former Apple director to design its phone software
I guess bigger screens were not a bad idea after all.
And I'm still looking out for those "pants with bigger pockets" and "man purses." Based on my observations looking for those all over this country, apparently no one in the USA bought the 6 or 6s.
I imagine how many more phones apple could have sold if they had bought out a 4" phone as well, with 67% of iPhone users not bothering to upgrade.
It's not a great photo. And I know very little about the model shown, but I look at those thin bezels and how nicely the antenna lines are colored to blend against the case color and I find myself hoping the IPhone designers are paying attention to the looks of that Huawei phone on the left. If this company is copying Apple, at least they went one better on the aesthetics there with the antenna lines.
That's because Apple maintains a higher standard of quality than Samsung. I'd like to see a chart that shows actual sales/activation of iPhone vs. Samsung Galaxy series only in the last two years. I have yet to see one that doesn't encompass all of the cheap, crappy Samsung freebies. I'd bet that once the iPhone 6 Plus and 6S Plus become free-on-contract, these numbers will change. Also, Apple has been making huge leaps in improving iOS. There's a reason why so many people this year switched from Android to iOS.
You could tell based on my impeccable grasp of the (American) English language?
The governments of the United States, Canada, Australia, India, and the UK have all had issues/complaints against Huawei over security issues (most of these were before Huawei was in the smartphone business; ironically, the U.S. used some of the security flaws in Huawei devices to spy on the company). A few years ago I owned a Huawei made smartphone and was not impressed (I know many of their newer phones are much improved and the Nexus 6P is a Huawei phone, which is an endorsement of the strides the company has made).
HTC, Samsung, LG, Sony, and Motorola all have excellent options for phones running Android and are without some of the questions concerning ethics, security, and politics of Huawei. As a company they are improving (and their products are improving) so my opinion is changing over time but if I were to give up my iPhone (not happening any time soon after I switched away from Android last year), I'd choose one made by one of the other companies.
European even concern more with privacy. You must be neither European nor American. Let me guess: Asian...well, Chinese?