Yeah some of their top end devices are very very good. I still wouldn't buy one
-----Original Message----- From: 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, 4 August 2017 4:09 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Huawei came really close to selling as many phones as Apple - CNET Huawei may make a fine phone, but I know nothing about it. In the end it's two different markets. I'm sure Nissan sells a whole lot more cars than BMW. Last I heard, roaches outnumber people as well :) CB On 8/3/17 7:50 PM, M. Taylor wrote: > CNET News - Thursday, August 3, 2017 at 12:12 AM Huawei came really > close to selling as many phones as Apple - CNET > > Huawei's phone sales rose 20 percent year over year in the second quarter. > César Salza/CNET > The gap in global phone sales between Apple and Huawei is smaller than ever. > Apple, the world's No. 2 phone seller by volume, sold 41 million > iPhones in the second quarter. Huawei, the No. 3 global phone brand > thanks to its popularity in China and Europe, sold 38.5 million phones > during the same period, Counterpoint Research said Tuesday. > Huawei's numbers are up 20 percent from the same quarter last year, > while Apple's year-on-year growth was 2 percent. Of course, the > Cupertino, California-based company has little to worry about. Though > it sells fewer phones than Samsung and may eventually fall behind > Huawei, it has always topped profit share. In 2016, Apple accounted > for just under 80 percent of all smartphone profits. > "Apple is the most profitable smartphone brand on the planet with > highest brand equity, however, it is in a conundrum," Counterpoint's > Neil Shah told CNET. Apple is losing ground in China, while brands > like Huawei and Oppo are becoming more popular. "Apple has been losing > revenues in China since (the > 2014) iPhone 6 (and) 6Plus launch, which was the peak for Apple in China," > he said. > Oppo and Xiaomi, two other Chinese phone giants, also grew > considerably. The former sold 30.5 million phones in the second > quarter, a 33 percent rise, while the latter's 23.3 million was a 60 > percent increase over the prior year. > Samsung is still king though, with 80.4 million in phone sales in the > quarter. LG, its South Korean competitor, sold 13.3 million phones, > 600,000 fewer than in the same quarter last year. > > Original Article at: > https://www.cnet.com/news/huawei-came-really-close-to-selling-as-many- > phones > -as-apple/#ftag=CAD590a51e > > > > -- ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: [email protected] and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: [email protected] and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
