The iPhone accounted for a fifth of the worldwide market with near 235 million shipments final 12 months, analysis agency IDC estimates. Samsung, whose shipments slumped in double-digits to 226.6 million, got here in second, forward of Chinese language machine makers like Xiaomi Corp.

Whereas Apple has dominated the vacation quarter in recent times, its surge forward of Samsung over a full 12 months is unprecedented and suggests Apple is weathering an industry-wide hunch higher than rivals.

“All this regardless of going through elevated regulatory challenges and renewed competitors from Huawei in China, its largest market. Apple’s ongoing success and resilience is largely because of the rising development of premium gadgets, which now characterize over 20% of the market.”

A part of Apple’s problem on the planet’s greatest cell market comes from native tech powerhouse Huawei, which reclaimed among the market share it misplaced after US sanctions by releasing the Mate 60 Professional smartphone working on a sophisticated made-in-China processor.

Apple this week launched uncommon reductions on the iPhone within the nation, of as a lot as 5% per handset, because it sought to stem additional erosion of gross sales.