Quick ahead to immediately when Canalys’ listing of the prime 10 best-selling smartphones worldwide is out, what’s arguably the worst iPhone improve ever, can be the best-selling vanilla flagship telephone of 2023.
Let-that-sink-in…
The smallest improve in Apple’s whole historical past was the best-selling vanilla flagship telephone of 2023.
Although I suggested everybody to keep away from the iPhone 14 (and so did many media shops), folks couldn’t care much less. Which is why I conclude: Apple is a cult…
Jokes apart, the truth that Apple merely doesn’t appear to be able to making a fallacious transfer is a bit… scary. At this level, I’m satisfied regardless of how exhausting Cupertino tries (or doesn’t strive), folks will maintain shopping for the brand new iPhone. Even when it goes again to having a single digicam, an LCD show, and a notch.
To prime all of it off, Apple was final yr’s primary smartphone vendor, which is a precedent. And to backside it off, Android flagships aren’t even on the backside of the bestsellers listing.
However how far can Apple go?
Jaw-dropping gross sales figures present iPhone is perhaps the one flagship telephone that issues in 2024: What about Android?
The highest 10 best-selling smartphones worldwide, in line with Canalys.
The iPhone is untouchable relating to gross sales, and that’s not precisely nice for the smartphone business
See, the iPhone 15 sequence is a killer improve, which suggests you might be getting a terrific telephone regardless of which iPhone 15 mannequin you select. In different phrases, Apple’s unbelievable numbers are there for a motive. However then you definately bear in mind the comparatively unimpressive iPhone 14 was the best-selling vanilla flagship of 2023, which makes Apple’s dominance a bit scary.
Does Cupertino have an excessive amount of energy and affect? Most actually. We’ve seen this play out a variety of instances: Apple makes controversial adjustments to the iPhone, and Android telephones observe, as a result of it’s the development.
That’s to not say that Apple can’t be a superb position mannequin because the business chief. Though I’d argue a number of the iPhone’s finest options haven’t turn out to be an integral a part of Android telephones, like MagSafe and Face ID, for instance.
Galaxy S24 and Pixel 8 are the perfect flagships Samsung and Google have ever made, however does that matter if they will’t discover mainstream success?
As Adrian factors out in his information piece, in comparison with the iPhone 15, Samsung’s Galaxy S23 sequence of flagships had a further seven months available on the market in 2023.
Regardless of that, the Galaxy S23 flagships haven’t come near the iPhone 15’s jaw-dropping 70-80 million models offered. In reality, like earlier years, Samsung’s S23 flagships haven’t made the highest 10 in any respect. And you realize that if the Galaxy doesn’t contact the iPhone in gross sales, the Pixel has zero probability of doing so.
It makes you marvel – the place do Samsung and Google discover the inspiration to maintain going? Definitely not in sturdy flagship gross sales.
Killer iPhone 15 improve will inevitably prime the gross sales charts in 2024 – can Android do something to alter that?
Apple’s momentum can be exhausting to problem. Particularly in the event you think about how mediocre of an improve the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus have been – but, the previous managed to promote extremely effectively.
Huawei and Honor are doing fairly effectively, anticipated to take over the Chinese language market (once more) following the financial battle between the US and China. This is perhaps the one approach Apple can lose a big quantity of market share on the worldwide scene.
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So, in a approach Apple has set a excessive bar with iPhone 15, however Tim Prepare dinner & Co don’t essentially want to leap over it with the iPhone 16. The iPhone 14’s gross sales numbers are proof.
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Imagine it or not, Apple turned the world’s primary phone-maker in a calendar yr (2023) for the primary time in historical past… Within the yr of the iPhone 14… What?!
Other than that, Cupertino is operating circles across the competitors within the premium laptop computer market, dominates the pill market, and leads the wearable market too (with AirPods and Apple Watch). The cherry on prime is that the revolutionary Imaginative and prescient Professional headset Apple simply launched is promoting higher than anticipated – even on the mouth-watering beginning worth of $3,500.
Whether or not you employ an iPhone (or every other Apple product) or not, it’s exhausting to disclaim – it’s Apple’s (digital) world and we’re residing in it. Find it irresistible or hate it. So, my congrats exit to whoever is pulling the enterprise strings at Apple.