iPhone is the smartphone more sold by the close of 2016 how are the other brands? – Merca2.0

The smartphone has become an indispensable device for millions of people around the world, so much so that it is estimated that by the end of 2017, more than a third of the population will have a device of these, which means that there will be about 2 thousand 600 million users, according to projected data in Statista.

This market is so profitable that they are a large number of brands which are presented from year to year with new models with the firm intention to conquer the consumer, however, from a long time ago there are two that are vying to be the biggest in sales: Apple and Samsung.

well, the 2016 ended up with interesting data that is good to have present, as the company from Cupertino recovered during the last quarter of the first place in worldwide sales, surpassing for the first time in six years to its main competitor, Samsung.

And, is that according to a report by IDC, between October and December last year, Apple sold 78,3 million iPhones, while the south Korean placed in the market 77.5 million of smart phones.

Although the iPhone 6 met the expectations in sales, something that was reflected in their income, however, the arrival of the iPhone 7 it seems that it brings with it a spike, something that will be noted in their reports in 2017.

in Addition, according to Strategy Analytics, a lot of it had to do with sales of Samsung in the fourth quarter fell by 3.8 million units compared to the sold in the same period of 2015, largely affected by the crisis caused by the problems with the battery of the Galaxy Note 7.

however, not everything is good for Apple, as the data from IDC also show that both the iPhone and Samsung devices lose ground in China, one of the most important markets globally, as Oppo, Huawei, and Live dominated the market of smart phones in China during 2016, relegating them to Cupertino at the fourth site, while Xiaomi took Samsung out of the top 5.

This is something that is reflected in the global market, for Huawei managed to sell during the last quarter of 2016, approximately 45.4 million smartphone, while Oppo sold 29.5 million devices and Live 25.6 million smartphones.