Apple yesterday announced that it sold 46.89M iPhones in the previous quarter. The company’s staggered iPhone releases both this year and last make comparisons tricky, but the bottom line was slight growth of 0.5%. IDC data now puts that number into perspective.
The firm says that global smartphone shipments fell by a full 6% in Q3 (Apple’s fiscal Q4) …
IDC data comes from its quarterly phone tracker.
The firm says there were two big factors at play here.
IDC data shows the big winners in China were local brands Huawei and Xiaomi, which saw their shipments grow by 32.9% and 21.2% respectively.
The company notes that iPhone XR sales aren’t included as they fall into Q4 (Apple’s fiscal Q1 2019).
The previous quarter was the last time we’ll have iPhone sales data direct from Apple: the company announced yesterday that it will no longer report the numbers going forward. We’ll then be dependent on a combination of data from companies like IDC, and estimates from Apple’s reported revenue.
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