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Title: iPhone sales fell 8.2% in Q1 due to COVID-19
Post by: HCK on June 02, 2020, 04:05:21 pm
iPhone sales fell 8.2% in Q1 due to COVID-19

Xiaomi is the only vendor to record year-on-year growth.

What you need to know


Apple's iPhone sales fell by 8.2% year-on-year in Q1.
That's according to the latest figures from Gartner.
The smartphone market as a whole declined 20% due to the impact of COVID-19.


Apple's iPhone sales fell 8.2% in the first quarter of the year compared to 2019, as the smartphone market as a whole declined by 20%.

According to the latest research from Gartner:


  Global sales of smartphones to end users declined 20.2% in the first quarter of 2020, according to Gartner, Inc. The global shelter-in-place combined with the economic uncertainty brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic led to demand for smartphones collapsing as consumers stopped spending on nonessential products during the first quarter.
 
  All of the top five smartphone vendors recorded a decline in the first quarter of 2020, except for Xiaomi (see Table 1). Strong sales of Redmi devices in international markets and aggressive online ch...

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