Apple captured eight spots within the record of high 10 best-selling smartphones for 2022, based on a market-research agency. The three hottest fashions all run iOS.
However Samsung’s flagship Android is a minimum of within the high 10, proper? Nope.
iPhone 13 was the best-selling handset of 2022
When whole numbers, Android outsells iPhone. However gross sales of handsets operating Google’s OS are break up amongst so many firms that no Android sells sufficient to essentially compete with the recognition of particular person iPhone fashions.
“Apple’s iPhone 13 was the best-selling smartphone of 2022, contributing 28% of iPhone gross sales,” reported Harshit Rastogi, an analyst with Counterpoint Analysis. “It was the best-selling smartphone in main markets comparable to China, US, UK, Germany and France.”
There was a major hole between first and second place. “iPhone 13 gross sales have been two occasions greater than that of the iPhone 13 Professional Max, the second best-selling smartphone in 2022,” based on Rastogi.
In third place in the preferred handsets amongst international consumers in 2022 was the iPhone 14 Professional Max, indicating a change in shopping for habits. The mannequin didn’t debut till September however shortly outstripped different telephones. “It was the top-selling smartphone mannequin for September, October and November of 2022,” famous Rastogi, which suggests it outsold all the opposite iPhone 14 variants.
Different Apple fashions additionally on Counterpoint Analysis’s high 10 record are the iPhone 13 Professional (5), iPhone 12 (6), iPhone 14 (7), iPhone 14 Professional (8) and iPhone SE 2022 (9).
Chart: Counterpoint Analysis
Two cheap Androids made the record
Apple is the primary model to seize eight spots in Counterpoint’s record of high 10 best-selling smartphones, leaving area for Samsung to slide in a few Androids.
Neither is among the Korean firm’s flagship S22 sequence launched in 2022. As a substitute, they have been a pair of entry-level gadgets: the Galaxy A13 and Galaxy A03. These are so fundamental they don’t have 5G.
Different analysis has already proven that high-end Androids don’t promote significantly nicely. Not compared to iPhone. Within the $400-and-up vary, iPhone outsells Android virtually two-to-one.
The Android vs. iPhone battle issues for greater than bragging rights. Third-party app builders determine which platform to help primarily based on their relative reputation. The identical goes for accent makers.
