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Todd Haselton | CNBC
Apple shipped extra smartphones within the fourth quarter of 2020 than some other firm, in accordance market research firm Gartner.
Apple shipped practically 80 million models within the quarter, surpassing all different smartphone makers together with Samsung. It is the primary time Apple has been on prime since 2016, in keeping with the report launched Monday.
Apple’s robust vacation quarter and the brand new Gartner outcomes proceed to counsel that Apple’s household of iPhone 12 units, with 5G functionality and a brand new exterior design, is a success within the market. The outcomes additionally counsel that Apple has weathered the coronavirus pandemic higher than its smartphone opponents.
Final month, a competing estimate said that Apple shipped shipped 90.1 million telephones throughout the identical quarter, a determine that market researcher IDC stated was the only greatest quarter within the historical past of the smartphone, judged by shipments.
Apple does not report unit gross sales for its units. Within the fourth quarter of calendar 2020, Apple reported $65.6 billion in iPhone gross sales, up 17% year-over-year. Apple’s enterprise is seasonal and the quarter ending in December is the corporate’s largest when it comes to gross sales. Apple’s newest iPhones weren’t even on sale for the whole quarter.
The smartphone market declined 5.4% in 2020 amid the worldwide coronavirus pandemic, in keeping with the report, whereas Apple’s shipments grew 3.3%. Samsung nonetheless shipped essentially the most units over a year-long interval.
The largest drop on the desk comes from Huawei, which shrunk 24.1% in 2020, though it was nonetheless the third-largest smartphone maker by quantity. Huawei is struggling with U.S. sanctions which have considerably hampered its handset enterprise. Samsung does not face the identical problem however nonetheless noticed shipments drop 14.6% in 2020, in keeping with Gartner.
