China's top four smartphone vendors should all be able to increase their global sales scores this year, thanks mainly to improved foreign performance.
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Samsung's Galaxy S9 sales numbers may not have exceeded S8 scores on their first day in Korea, but down the line, they should be slightly higher around the world.
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It's not looking good for Apple's iPhone X, which may end up selling just 18 million units in Q1 2018, and 12 mil in Q2. But its three sequels should do great business.
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Samsung should continue to dominate the global smartphone market next year, but Apple and Huawei are expected to start narrowing the gap.
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The best is yet to come for the Apple Watch family, according to a reputable analyst, with sales numbers thus far exceeding a remarkable 33 million.
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Even with the iPhone 8 around the corner and the Galaxy S8 duo still selling like hotcakes, Samsung wants and believes in great Galaxy Note 8 numbers.
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Even with the Galaxy Note 7 out of the picture, the Galaxy S8 not yet released and the S7 getting a bit long in the tooth, Samsung made a boatload of money.
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Apple has always been about hardware profits first, volumes second, refusing time and time again to release lower-cost iPhones tailor-made for emerging mobile markets, also keeping the price (and quality) bar of iPads and Macs constantly high.
But margins are nothing if you don’t sell enough products to actually accumulate hefty financial gains, and with the exception of the just-ended year, the Cupertino-based tech giant has managed to steadily increase its shipment numbers in addition to the bottom line.
2017 should not only mark a return of that all-winning Apple trend, according to Gartner’s latest industry projections, but “for the first time this century”, push iOS and macOS devices ahead of Microsoft’s Windows-powered products in global sales.
If these predictions are correct, Apple will rack up 268 million unit shipments this year, up from 248 in 2016, and 252 for Windows, which will apparently sink yet again, from an already modest 260 million total.
The gap between the new silver medalist and the bronze underachiever may grow to 24, then 28 million units in 2018 and 2019 respectively, as the combined iOS + macOS tally should continue to jump at a decent pace, while Microsoft is expected to stop the Windows bleeding, but settle for stagnation.
Of course, Android will comfortably remain in the lead, although its own growth has considerably slowed down of late, with no apparent hopes of a short-term acceleration.
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Samsung seems to have impressively bounced back from embarrassing Galaxy Note 7 scandals already, at least as far as overall financial gains are concerned, never suffering much in terms of brand confidence anyway.
But the real test is yet to come, and we’re all curious about the market’s response to a prospectively game-changing Galaxy S8. As always, its makers expect the world from the “next big thing”, reportedly asking supply partners for enough components to build and sell 60 million units this year alone.
Just how ambitious is that number? Not as ambitious as 100 million, which is apparently the 2017 shipment goal of the low to mid-end Galaxy J lineup. Meanwhile, the upper mid-range Galaxy A series, now consisting of water-resistant models, has its sights set on a “modest” 20 million sales target.
To put those figures in the right context, let’s look back at the Galaxy S7, S6 and S5, which reportedly sold between 45 and 48 million copies apiece, preceded by the most successful S in history, the 70-million-worth GS4.
Of course, the Note family wasn’t that big in 2013, the high-end smartphone industry didn’t know what saturation meant, and the budget flagship concept sounded like a pipe dream.
As for entry-level J devices, they badly need lower price points than last year to fend off an avalanche of sub-$250 China-made killers, slowly making their way even stateside. Bottom line, it’s all doable for the global smartphone champ, but it’s not going to be easy.
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In addition to being marketed as the first ever phones “made by Google”, with actual OEM (or rather ODM now) emblems entirely absent from their designs, the Pixel and Pixel XL might well be the Mountain View search giant’s first mainstream-oriented high-end hardware products.Sure, the Android purist niche probably remains the easiest target audience, but with wide Verizon availability,
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Smartwatches (or rather wearable devices in general) were once hailed as the tech industry’s next big thing, but now, we’re starting to worry they might kick the bucket before ever truly taking off.Sure, Google and its hardware-producing partners swear they remain committed to the fragile market niche. Then again, both Android Wear 2.0 and a second (third?) wave of compatible wrist-worn gadgets from a number ...
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With Apple going against tradition in keeping opening weekend iPhone 7 sales under wraps, as certain models got their initial inventories all depleted during the pre-order period, various financial analysts and industry insiders continue to scramble for
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Large demand for a just-launched smartphone is by no means bad news as far as the manufacturing company is concerned, though component shortages and low production yields extending over a lengthy period of time can turn a prospective box-office hit into a very real flop.Samsung experienced such a shifty scenario back when it wasn’t able to rapidly ramp up S6 Edge shipments on account of curved display deficiencies, but even ...
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There are two ways of looking at the super-highly-anticipated Samsung Galaxy Note 7, which finally went official the other day with few surprises left in store. You can view the dual-curved 5.7-incher as a slightly larger S7 Edge with an S Pen in tow, ...
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While waiting for Samsung’s full Q2 2016 financial report to go public, which will probably not include explicit smartphone sales figures or official forecasts anyway, it’s time to take a look at another analyst cume and short-term projection.According to unnamed inside sources quoted by hit-and-miss Taiwanese publication Digitimes, Galaxy shipments could exceed a colossal 350 million copies for the whole of 2016. How big of a number is that? Well, it would be more than 25 mil up from Samsung’s already remarkable 2015 total.Meanwhile, Apple merely managed to push around 230M iPhones ...
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