Xiaomi Has Overtaken Apple as the World's Second-Biggest Smartphone Seller

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From Xiaomi has overtaken Apple as the world's second-biggest smartphone seller. Here's how the major players rank.

Xiaomi has overtaken Apple to become the second-biggest smartphone seller in the world.

For the first time, the Chinese electronics giant took second place in Canalys' quarterly smartphone sales report, with a 17% share of the market.

Samsung remained in the number one spot, accounting for 19% of global smartphone shipments in the second quarter of 2021, the closely-watched report showed. Apple had 14% of the market.

If I read that right:
Samsung - 19 %
Xiaomi - 17%
Apple - 14%

Ben Stanton, research manager at Canalys, said: "All vendors are fighting hard to secure component supply amid global shortages, but Xiaomi already has its sights set on the next prize: displacing Samsung to become the world's largest vendor."

[...] Although Canalys said it was the first time Xiaomi had ranked above Apple on its list, in October, International Data Corporation said that Xiaomi sold nearly 5 million more smartphones than Apple in the third quarter of 2020.

In the end, there can be only one.

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