Smartphone Market Share Worldwide
As thenumber of smartphone users worldwideincreases year after year, it’s no surprise thatmobile commerce salesare also reaching all-time highs. That said, knowing certainmobile usage statisticscan come in handy when crafting a digital marketing strategy.
Thelatest statisticson the smartphone market share worldwide show that as of April 2023, US phone maker Apple leads the pack, with a market share of 30.44%. This means that more than three in 10 smartphone users worldwide use an Apple phone.
Second on the list of the most popular smartphone manufacturers is Samsung. The South Korean brand has 26.1% of the smartphone market share, just 4.34 percentage points less than Apple.
Apple and Samsung dominate the smartphone industry and own a combined 56.54% of the total smartphone market share. In fact, these two smartphone manufacturers have been leading the market since 2013. That year, both their market shares surpassed Nokia’s, a Finnish phone brand that was immensely popular in the 2000s.
The data also shows that Apple and Samsung have been swapping places over the past year or so. Up until September 2021, Samsung had had a consistent run as the market leader—albeit only marginally. But Apple overtook Samsung that October and held the lead for a few months before Samsung regained it in March 2022. October 2022 is the first time since then that Apple has taken the lead yet again, and the two have been trading places every few months since then.
Xiaomi is the third-largest smartphone brand, with 11.72% of the total market share. This is impressive for the Chinese company, considering it was founded only in 2010. The bulk of Xiaomi’s growth came in the past five years. Prior to 2017, the phone maker only had around 2% of the market share. That year, however, it more than doubled its share, ending the year with 4.75%.
After Xiaomi, Oppo, and Vivo follow, with 6.37% and 5.1% of the market share, respectively. The sixth-largest smartphone manufacturer is Huawei, which holds 4.12% of the smartphone market share.
Together, these six brands own 83.85% of the global smartphone market share. In other words, more than four out of every five smartphones being used worldwide are manufactured by them.
世界上所有的顶级手机品牌,Apple is based in the United States. In fact, the remaining five hail from Asia—specifically, China and South Korea.
