Across the world, the biggest smartphone manufacturers are Apple (28%), Samsung (24%), Xiaomi (12%), Oppo (6%) and Vivo (5%). However, there are geographic patterns in popularity, with Apple dominating North America and East Asia, while Samsung leads in South America, Europe, Africa and West Asia in addition to its home turf of South Korea. Xiaomi is the most popular phone brand across South Asia, Spain, Venezuela, Ukraine, Madagascar, Kyrgyzstan and Palestine, while Tecno is popular in West and Central Africa. Oppo, Vivo and Huawei lead in Indonesia, Bhutan and Togo respectively.
India and China’s got as much variety as their population it seems. “Other” brands having a higher market share in China than the most used brand is interesting.
Also those colors suck.
Okay Nigeria, what the hell is Tecno? How is it beating every manufacturer on the planet in your country?
In addition to what philpo said, they also provide good language support for many African languages, something no other vendor does.
I didn’t even consider that. Thank you for the info.
Source?
Apple domintaing in … Europe
Even your map doesn’t support this claim.
Belarus is marked as a country where Apple dominates, even though this is not true: Redmi (Xiaomi) and Samsung phones are more popular there (link)
And it seems like the situation in Russia is similar: Apple is the 4th most popular brand (2023, link).
Wait. Apple can’t be ruling in, East Asian countries. Personal experience. (Should not be in China as well.)
Look at the bar chart below. Apple has almost a two-third marketshare in Japan, but only about 20% in China. But China has a variety of Android manufacturers, so that Apple is the single biggest vendor.
How I wish Huawei would let us unlock their bootloader.
Didn’t expect iPhone to lead in Russia
Samsung doesn’t exist in China?
Not really, they’re kind of hated as a brand, when Chinese people see the Samsung brand they immediately think Huawei because they were taught Huawei is the Chinese Samsung.
Who chose this color scheme? Is that what being colorblind feels like?
LibreOffice + me trying to fix things and making it worse + svg to png conversion
Huawei har really taken a nose dive. Good phones, but after the whole debacle, virtually nobody in Western world buys them
c/fuck_the_colorblind
I’m not colorblind and I find this a PITA to read.
Lol I just wanted to comment that. Not blind, just hard to see but I gave up after10sec trying to decipher. It’s just such a bad diagram
Sorry, but I couldn’t find 12 distinct colours that all lie on the blue - yellow spectrum.
Why are you sticking with a specific spectrum? You made it hard to read in service of a requirement that doesn’t make any sense.
Are we supposed to stop using colours because clourblind people exist?
yes, please.
No. We are supposed to not exclude them by conveying information through other means than exclusively colour.
The world map and the chart tell different stories
Yep, saying Apple is biggest manufacturer is misleading since they have a class of their own. It’s like saying they’re the biggest manufacturer for iOS, which is not useful information.
