Samsung’s sales slump impacted its market share, where it dropped to 20.7% from 23.3%. Its competition, Apple, sold 51.99 million mobile devices, up from 50.8 million devices. Huawei ranked third in terms of market share in the global mobile market by taking a market share of 9%, increasing from 8.3% in the first quarter of 2016. The growth of Chinese handset sales and Samsung’s dominance of a large share of global mobile market sales reflects the increasing market share of Google Android’s mobile operating system. The gap between Android and iOS continued to grow apart, where the former accounted for a market share of 86.1% up from 84.1%.

Source: Daily News Egypt May 31, 2017 11:37 UTC