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Leading smartphone vendor in each country

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, East Asia and Europe, while Samsung leads in South America, 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 and Madagascar, while Tecno is popular in West and Central Africa. Oppo, Vivo and Huawei lead in Indonesia, Bhutan and Togo respectively.

unknowing8343 ,

It’s really so sad to see how marketing alone can shape the landscape even when they 🍎 are scamming their users so hard.

Blaze ,

Thanks for sharing.

Surprised by a few Europeans countries, like Spain or Belgium

woelkchen ,
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Belgium

You probably meant Luxembourg.

Blaze ,

I meant Belgium, as it’s the only iPhone country between 3 Samsung countries.

Seems like Luxembourg is no data?

woelkchen ,
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Seems like Luxembourg is no data?

I didn’t compare the shades of grey, I just assumed that Luxembourg is the only “other brands” country in Europe.

JustEnoughDucks ,
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I live in Belgium. I think I count on 2 hands how many people I have seen with an iPhone, and I have a quite young workplace.

Surprising that apple is top. Literally every public place where you are where a phone rings or an alarm goes off, there is a 90% chance it is the default Samsung tone/alarm and almost everyone in the room immediately checks if it was theirs lol.

M500 ,

I don’t think this is accurate. It says Apple is the leading phone where I live, but the large majority of people here are too poor for an iPhone. Plus you rarely see people with them outside the rich areas of the city.

Bye ,

I would go back to android if they had iMessage. That’s really what’s keeping me on iPhone.

pfaca ,

What’s so special about imessage?

Bye ,

It uses Wi-Fi and has sms fallback and works with iMessage

NateSwift ,

RCS on android is similar, and when IOS 18 comes out of beta it’ll finally support RCS which basically solves this completely. Uses wifi or data, sms fallback, works cross platform, and allows for high quality pictures/video, read receipts and reactions

Carighan ,
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Yeah but you can bet Apple will do their darndest to make it unlikely anybody is using it.

Blaze ,

Aren’t they suppose to be compatible with Android at some point due to the EU?

zelnix ,

Do you have a Mac? Or can run a Mac VM? You can use bluebubbles on a Mac that will let you use iMessage on non apple platforms

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