Defeated Samsung, became the new mobile company number one in the world, but which company! Don't be surprised to find out
According to the details, US sanctions have affected the sales of Huawei's phones in some regions, but surprisingly, the Chinese company surpassed Samsung for the first time in April 2020 and became the world's leading mobile phone company. It can only be described as amazing.
According to a report released by Counterpoint Research, Huawei was the world's largest company with a market share of 19% in April, compared to Samsung's market share of 17%. Huawei's historic breakthrough was made possible by China, where local company devices have been preferred since US sanctions.
In China, the company has boosted its market share over the past few months, while in April, outbreaks of the corona virus in various countries led to major lockdowns and economic downturns in India, the United States, Latin America and parts of Europe. Sales of smartphones have been hit hard. Severe lockdowns have pushed demand for smartphones to almost zero in several countries, while China has been working on economic recovery since March 2020 after controlling the Corona virus outbreak. Thus, the most important market for Huawei opened.
It is believed that the loss of Google services has led to a decline in sales of Huawei's new phones in other regions outside China, but it has still outperformed Samsung. However, how long will Huawei's success last? Yes, that's hard to say because global pandemic restrictions are easing and Samsung's sales are likely to rise again.
It should be noted that 2019 proved to be a good year for Huawei and it maintained its second position globally despite US sanctions. The smartphone market suffered its worst decline in history in the first quarter of 2020 as a result of an outbreak of the novel Corona virus. According to Gartner, a company that monitors device sales, sales of smartphones fell by 20.2% in January-March compared to the same period last year.
The report said that the Corona virus outbreak, which started in December, affected the manufacture and sale of devices of several companies in China and then the virus spread all over the world and succeeded in affecting the sales of smartphones. Samsung sold the most phones in the first quarter of this year, with more than 55 million and a market share of 18.5 percent, but the South Korean company lost 22.7 percent compared to the same period last year.
Huawei also came in second with 14.2% share, selling more than 42 million phones, but lost 27.3% during the quarter. Along with the Corona virus outbreak, the Chinese company also experienced the biggest decline in phone sales as a result of US sanctions. Apple came in third with 13.7 percent, selling more than 40 million iPhones, but sales of its devices also fell 8.2 percent during the quarter.
