According to the latest report released by data agency Canalys, Apple's mobile phone accounted for 22% of global smartphone shipments in the fourth quarter of 2021, regaining the first position in the global smartphone market, Samsung ranked second with 20%, Xiaomi ranked third with 12%, OPPO ranked fourth with 9%, and Vivo ranked in the top five with 8%. Great, Apple can even return to the world's first, and the iPhone price is relatively expensive, but also more for Huawei to feel sighs.
Let's take a look at the specific data, the global mobile phone shipment ranking in the fourth quarter of 2021:
First Apple, 79.22 million units, share 22%;
Second Samsung, 72.02 million units, share 20%;
The third millet, 43.21 million units, share 12%;
Fourth OPPO, 32.4 million units, share 9%;
Fifth VIVO, 28.8 million units, share 8%
Obviously, in the fourth quarter of 2021, the reason why Apple was able to achieve a breakthrough over Samsung is mainly because the iPhone 13 series was released in September, and the real sales period is the fourth quarter, and we can trace the previous data to this conclusion, that is, the sales of Apple's mobile phones will soar in the fourth quarter of each year.
In the fourth quarter of 2021, the reason why the iPhone13 series can be welcomed by the market, in addition to Apple's iPhone 13 has its own product advantages and price advantages, the more critical external reason is also that Huawei's chip has been blocked, giving way to a huge market, so that Apple has a stronger rebound, to know that Huawei has not been suppressed before huawei has far exceeded the shipment of Apple's mobile phone.
The data agency also provides a ranking of global mobile phone shipments in 2021:
First Samsung, 275 million units, share 20.4%;
Second Apple, 229 million units, share 17%;
Third millet, 189 million units, share 14%;
Fourth OPPO, 135 million units, share 10.1%;
Fifth VIVO, 128 million units, share 9.5%;
It can be seen that if it is from the perspective of the whole year, Samsung still maintains the first position in the world, but the gap between Apple and it is constantly narrowing. It is worth mentioning that among domestic mobile phones, xiaomi OPPO and vivo, the market share of these three mobile phone manufacturers is about 10%, although the previous Huawei can occupy more than 20% of the global market share, but from the overall point of view, domestic mobile phones still ushered in a collective outbreak.
We feel sorry for Huawei, if not everything came so suddenly, then Huawei is now sitting in the world's first position, Apple Samsung will be trampled under Huawei's feet. However, we also have to be thankful for xiaomi OPPO and vivo, the three mobile phone manufacturers, although their performance in the high-end smartphone market is still unsatisfactory, not able to bring a lot of pressure to Apple Samsung in the mobile phone of more than 5,000 yuan, but relying on the layout of low-end models, it is still possible to obtain some markets, and what needs to be strengthened in the future is the competitiveness in the high-end smartphone market.
For users, losing the choice of Huawei mobile phones is certainly not a good news, but if other domestic mobile phone brands can complete the task of sniping Apple Samsung, I think this may be a blessing in misfortune.