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Apple and Samsung aren't the world's top two smartphone vendors for once (www.androidpolice.com)
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Not really a surprise considering the size of their domestic market. An interesting statistic would be each of these vendor's shares outside of their home country. I'm particularly curious at Apple's share without the US's iPhone majority.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Xiaomi isn't actually that big in China AFAIK. There is a lot of competition, not just from Apple but all the other Chinese vendors, most of whom are larger. Huawei, Honor, VIVO and Oppo all have at least an equivalent, if not larger, segment of the Chinese market.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I don’t know what it looks like now. In 2019, at least in one of the cities I went to, it seemed like everyone had a XiaoMi