Research company Canalys has revealed the winner of the Samsung and Apple competition with its report on global smartphone shipments covering the first quarter of 2022.
In the report, which states that smartphone sales have fallen by 11 percent worldwide due to economic recession and decreasing demand, the increase in the Omicron variant, which also negatively affected the CES fair, the quarantines applied in China due to COVID-19 and the decrease in phone shipments of the Russia-Ukraine crisis. contribution was emphasized.
Samsung surpassed Apple with its market share
Samsung managed to increase its market share, which was 22 percent in the first quarter of 2021, to 24 percent by increasing its market share by 2 points in the first quarter of 2022. This is hardly a surprise, given that the company has a fairly wide range of products.
Galaxy S21 FE was one of the first devices Samsung launched in 2022. Following this with the Galaxy S22 series that it introduced in February, the technology giant appeared in mid-March with the new Galaxy A series devices consisting of Galaxy A73, A53, A33, A23 and A13 models.
Apple’s market share increased by 3 percent
Having recently introduced many new products, including the 5G supported iPhone SE 2022 and the M1 processor iPad Air, Apple has increased its market share by 3 percent in the first quarter of 2021. It increased its market share from 15 to 18 percent in the first quarter of 2022. After the iPhone 14 series to be introduced this year, the iPhone 11 is expected to be discontinued.
While the rest of the market is in Chinese companies
, Samsung is first and Apple is second, according to the Canalys report, Xiaomi’s market share was 13 percent in the first quarter of 2022. OPPO followed with 10 percent, followed by Vivo with 8 percent. The market share of smartphone manufacturers listed in the Other category, on the other hand, fell from 28 percent in the first quarter of 2021 to 27 percent in this period.
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