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Leading smartphone vendor in each country (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by emergencyfood to c/[email protected]
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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 and East Asia, while Samsung leads in South America, Europe, 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, Madagascar, Kyrgyzstan and Palestine, while Tecno is popular in West and Central Africa. Oppo, Vivo and Huawei lead in Indonesia, Bhutan and Togo respectively.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 months ago (6 children)

c/fuck_the_colorblind

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

I'm not colorblind and I find this a PITA to read.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

Lol and the two biggest are close in color as well. At least make those two clear distinct colors.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Are we supposed to stop using colours because clourblind people exist?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

No. We are supposed to not exclude them by conveying information through other means than exclusively colour.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

yes, please.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Lol I just wanted to comment that. Not blind, just hard to see but I gave up after10sec trying to decipher. It's just such a bad diagram

[–] emergencyfood 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sorry, but I couldn't find 12 distinct colours that all lie on the blue - yellow spectrum.

[–] booly 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why are you sticking with a specific spectrum? You made it hard to read in service of a requirement that doesn't make any sense.

[–] emergencyfood 1 points 2 months ago

You overestimate my artistic abilities. I took the default colour palette LibreOffice gave, and replaced a few with ones that clash less.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

India and China's got as much variety as their population it seems. "Other" brands having a higher market share in China than the most used brand is interesting.

Also those colors suck.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Okay Nigeria, what the hell is Tecno? How is it beating every manufacturer on the planet in your country?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A Chinese low cost manufacturer from Shenzhen. Their parent company is actually one of the Top 5 manufacturers - but none in the North/West has heard of them.

They were specifically founded to provide smartphones for low and medium income markets like Africa, India, etc. Meanwhile they also manufacture phones there.

Their parent company holds almost 50% of the African market share.

They are actually producing decent phones by now - had the chance to take a look of one of their most recent phones a few weeks back. 5G, dual SIM, dedicated microSD slot, headphones jack (yes Lemmy!) and a big battery - but the camera and display were mediocre. Overall still a decent phone for a good price, even though they don't sell them everywhere and I would be weary of the updates issue.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Interesting. Thanks for the info especially about the quality of their phones. I found info about the company but not much about real world use of their products. Appreciate it.

[–] emergencyfood 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

In addition to what philpo said, they also provide good language support for many African languages, something no other vendor does.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I didn't even consider that. Thank you for the info.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Decent cheap brand. They're actually centered in Nigeria and as such they have a big market there

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Source?

Apple domintaing in … Europe

Even your map doesn't support this claim.

Belarus is marked as a country where Apple dominates, even though this is not true: Redmi (Xiaomi) and Samsung phones are more popular there (link)

[–] emergencyfood 2 points 2 months ago

I'm using data from StatCounter, as mentioned in the figure. See Belarus and Russia. They could be wrong; their figures are based on website hits.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

And it seems like the situation in Russia is similar: Apple is the 4th most popular brand (2023, link).

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wait. Apple can't be ruling in, East Asian countries. Personal experience. (Should not be in China as well.)

[–] emergencyfood 5 points 2 months ago

Look at the bar chart below. Apple has almost a two-third marketshare in Japan, but only about 20% in China. But China has a variety of Android manufacturers, so that Apple is the single biggest vendor.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

How I wish Huawei would let us unlock their bootloader.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Didn't expect iPhone to lead in Russia

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

and in China

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

It's "leading" with only ~20% market share, though.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

More than enough for Apple to bend to pretty much everything the Chinese government is asking for.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sure, 20% of 1.4B is 280 million, more than almost any country's total population.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Some people don't use smartphones. An article in prioridata states that, in this year, 974.6 millions of Chinese people use smartphones. They are still a lot of Apple users, but less than 200 million, still probably similar to their USA customer base to put it in perspective.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

with Apple dominating Europe...

Your own map diagrees, with 100% of the picked examples from Europe having Samsung as market leader.

[–] emergencyfood 2 points 2 months ago

Fixed. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Samsung doesn't exist in China?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Not really, they're kind of hated as a brand, when Chinese people see the Samsung brand they immediately think Huawei because they were taught Huawei is the Chinese Samsung.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Who chose this color scheme? Is that what being colorblind feels like?

[–] emergencyfood 4 points 2 months ago

LibreOffice + me trying to fix things and making it worse + svg to png conversion

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Huawei har really taken a nose dive. Good phones, but after the whole debacle, virtually nobody in Western world buys them

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The world map and the chart tell different stories

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago

Yep, saying Apple is biggest manufacturer is misleading since they have a class of their own. It's like saying they're the biggest manufacturer for iOS, which is not useful information.