Apple’s smartphone market share increases in 2018 as Samsung shrinks

Global sales of smartphones returned to growth in the first quarter of 2018 with a 1.3 per cent increase in sales from the same period in 2017 with Apple’s market share increasing as Samsung’s share shrunk.
There were 384 million smartphones sold in the Q1 2018 – which represents 84 per cent of all phones sold globally.
“Demand for premium and high-end smartphones continued to suffer due to marginal incremental benefits during upgrade,” said Anshul Gupta, resea