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iPad Remained World's Most Popular Tablet Last Quarter While Huawei Topped Apple in Smartphones Again
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Stating that Huawei makes excellent smart phones is not defending it. It’s just putting out a hard cold fact that Apple needs to acknowledge whether or not the Huawei is banned in the USA. Because these phones are banned, but earlier crap quality stuff wasn’t, a lot of people aren’t aware how good Huawei phones have become. Again, that’s not defense, just a statement of fact.lol. Americans would rather defend a Chinese state owned company than their own.
They don't even know why Huawei is banned in the US.
Can't wait for China to crush the US in every other category. You deserve it
By the way, I don’t know if your name is indicative of your nationality, but I need to point out that a good number of my neighbors are from Somalia, so when you said “we” deserve something you’re implying a good number of people from all over the world who currently make this country their home deserve it, too.
What we deserve, according to our laws, is products that are safe and reliable.
They likely didn't sell over 218M...or even close. None of these numbers are reported (gee, makes it seem like Apple isn't that off base here, huh) but these are the "estimate" by analysts covering the companies.
These are per year estimates:
Samsung S9: 40M
Note 9: 12M (based on Samsung's own target)
Pixel: 4M
Razer Phone: <1M
HTC U12: <1M
Huawei P20: ~25M (based on disclosed 10M in 5 months)
Huawei Mate 10: ~12M (Based on disclosed 10M in 10 months)
LG V: <3M
LG g7: <3M
Of the ones I mentioned, the total is ~100M. Just to make it more fair, let's call it 125M. Bottom line, Apple owns this market.
We've seen countless times reports of Apple making over 90% of the mobile smartphone profits. This is why.
Why is market share relevant to consumers? Cheerleading market share is just as vomit inducing as ASP. Huawei sold more smartphones, Apple made more profit. end of story.
What’s interesting is, I don’t even see any other marketing for tablets except for the iPad, sometimes the Galaxy ‘Tab’ has some marketing, but mainly it’s the iPad. I think consumers are generally attracted to what is put in front of them, and being that Apple has an entry-level version and all the way up to the iPad Pro provides more diversity depending on what one’s uses are.
I think iPad has become synonymous with the word tablet for a lot of people. I’ve heard people refer to their non iPad tablets as an iPad.
Yes smart leaders and smart people who only know how to usurp, steal and copy. Name one thing in the past 100 years that China
has invented that has shaped and improved the modern world? Torture, oppression, murder don't count... Come on, let's see your list.
Who are their Steve Jobs, Henry Ford, Edison, Jennings, Salk, etc etc etc etc etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc?
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Like I said, just playing devils advocate. I didn't mention the other phones still sold in 2018 that were over $700 like the S8, Note 8, S9+, S8+, V30, and so on. But your point is taken... Apple destroys all companies when it comes to phone profits, which is why I own Apple stock! Makes me happy when they sell a ton (and why I'm said right now, because the last 2 days have been killer on my stocks, simply because Apple reported number of units sold). I hate analysts ability to manipulate the stock market with their "estimates".
- Non-invasive prenatal diagnostic testing for Down's Syndrome: Previously, women underwent invasive testing such as amniocentesis or chorionic villus sampling (CVS). This new maternal blood test has the potential to reduce the number of women referred for invasive testing for Down's syndrome by 98 percent. Developed by Chinese researchers in Hong Kong in 2008, this is hailed as a breakthrough.[794]
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I think if you count the previous generation of those premium phone, then you have twice the volume. Also, many of those companies have half yearly renewal cycle.
The P20/P20 Pro series has been a massive success for Huawei on ALL fronts. Including sales. Over 10,000,000 sold (I believe in the quarter after release).
The Twilight finish set a trend.
The tri camera setup has been so successful that Apple's latest iPhone XS Max still hasn't caught up with the six month old P20 Pro.
No one has been able to match Night Mode.
Apple has only now caught up with last year's Mate 10 modem.
Huawei is way ahead on battery tech. Supercharge and now Supercharge 2 have really delivered.
Dual simultaneous VoLTE, dual SIM, better GPS tracking, Twin App, AIIS, reverse charging, ... The list goes on.
Huawei had plus $1,000 phones long before Apple. It currently has phones over $2,000.
Yes, it makes cheap phones, but it makes mid tier phones, premium phobep and ultra premium phones too.
For the last four years it has been moving into the high end bands with huge success.
The Mate 20 Pro (released two weeks ago) is the phone of the year for many reviewers and Huawei today revealed that pre orders are 40% higher than for the P20 Pro.
An Wang came from China. He was given a US Patent for Core Memory which he sold to IBM. He developed the desktop electronic calculator with a digital display. He started Wang Laboratories, made the Word Processor for businesses. He also was developing vertical layered magnetic data writing for disk drives. Wang also was one of the first to develop and sell optical imaging systems. I used to work for Wang Labs back in the 80's. A fabulous person and a genius. He took care of his employees and treated them like family.
The previous gen won’t sell as many as new gen, particularly with Samsung. Their phone sales tend to die quickly and have little staying power. They just saw it with the S9 by shipping lower quarter over quarter.
Even if you doubled everything, it’s only 200M premium phones for all those companies. Apple would still be ahead and those didn’t come close to,200M shipments.
If you consider the high proportion of those iPhones 5e/6s/7/7s as premium that apple also sell
in that case why not include all the Xiaomi Samsung A-series, oppo, vivo since those phones easily have much better specs than most iphones.
No one cares about specs like 4gb of ram vs 8gb, but iPhones have industry leading silicon, top 3 cameras, top screens, and the most advanced facial recognition.If you consider the high proportion of those iPhones 5e/6s/7/7s as premium that apple also sell
in that case why not include all the Xiaomi Samsung A-series, oppo, vivo since those phones easily have much better specs than most iphones.
Leading silicon that has shown to perform slower in daily apps usage. Faceid that is 3x slower to unlock than fingerprint, top screen that belongs in the basement bargain bin ( 800p XR screen) or camera that consistently have to play catchup to competitors previous generation camera.
Just depends on how you want to look at it
Yep, and now they just need to consider updating the Mini and my family and I will throw more money at them.
If I had a huge services sector I was making money off of and dependant on a large user base to grow, I would want to sell a lot of units.
How many of Apples services are cross platform and will grow even if the competitors hardware (and OS) gets the upper hand?
