Apple ended 2024 strong by dominating the Q4 smartphone shipment rankings by Canalys.

As per Canalys, Apple secured the top spot by owning 23% of the market share, beating all Android vendors. Canalys attributed iPhones‘ success to its growth in emerging markets in Southeast Asia and India.

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The iPhone maker’s lead against the second-placer, Samsung, is quite substantial, as the latter only had 16% of the market.

They are followed by Chinese tech giant Xiaomi with 13%, TRANSSION (Infinix, TECNO, Itel) at 8%, and vivo, also at 8%.

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Canalys highlighted how the overall smartphone market achieved a 3% increase in numbers compared to the quarter before and an impressive 7% increase than the same quarter the year before.

The analytics firm estimated that 1.22 billion smartphones were shipped in 2024.

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