Chinese smartphone players pocket 13% marketshare in India

smartphone shipments reached 81 million units in 2014, up 68.5% from 48 million in the previous year, according to Counterpoint Research. Chinese handset makers including Xiaomi and Gionee more than doubled their market to 13%. However the MNC's and global brands including Samsung and Nokia took the beating .. Indian handset makers led by Micromax gained.

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24 out of every 100 smartphone sold this year was samsung

Apple Xiaomi and Huawei was the biggest winner in Q1,2015 with a growth of more that 60 , 39%and 27%. respectively.In 2015  Samsung  contributed 24% os smartphones shipped globally compared to  30% in 2014Q1 a drop of over 6% Meanwhile 

Apple gained 3% and formed 18% of smartphone shipments in 2015  to be the number 2 brand after samsung

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Finally " Xiaomi Ends Samsung's China Wall " becomes the no 1 Smartphone brand in China,

With Smartphone shipments reaching 107.5 million units between October and December 2014. The smartphone  war in China  has started to heated up.Global giants like Apple and Samsung  will not find it easy going in this country as  home grown local smartphone players  are set to change the rules of the game and  Samsung has already realized that very  early .

In Q4,2014  Apple had 12% share of the Chinese  smartphone market compared go 7% Q4,2013.., Huawei 11% compared to 10% a year ago  and  Lenovo's 10% compared to 13% a year ago.In the same time Samsung's marketshare stood at 8% compared to 19%  in Q4,2013  which was a decline of 9%. Seldom has a market leader  which happens to be a global No 1 smartphone brand  seen its share decline to such extent in less than a year.

Meanwhile In what may be the indicator of  " disruptive changes in the Chinese Mobile Market,Xiaomi  has become the no 1 smartphone brand in China with 14% marketshare . Home grown Xiaomi grew by 100% YoY in just under a year  It had 7% marketshare in Q4,2013  which grew by 100% in Q4,2014..and  looking closely its very clear. from where  it has managed to keep growing at this pace.

According to Canalys, Xiaomi sold 15 million smartphones in China during the second quarter, more than a three-fold surge from a year earlier and eve surpassed older rivals like Huawei and Lenovo.

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Apple Loosing its Grip in the Tablet Market, as its market share falls from 60 to 30% in a year,

According to the latest data published by the market intelligence firm IDC, charted for us by Statista, Apple's tablet market share has dropped from above 60% in the June quarter of 2012 to just 26.9% this year. 

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Meanwhile, Samsung's market share jumped about 10 percentage points, Lenovo and Asus gained ground, but most of all, a group of "others," which likely includes Amazon's Kindle Fire and Microsoft's Surface families, has clearly started to bite on Apple's products and now beginning to chip  them away .

The ipad today has lost its mojo.. and unless Apple starts changing the market by launching newer tablets or starts to innovate newer technologies  and features( example wearable with Tablets.) Apple is in the risk of becoming history as far as tablets are concerned 

.According to the latest data published by the market intelligence firm IDC, charted for us by Statista, Apple's tablet market share has dropped from above 60% in the June quarter of 2012 to just 26.9% this year. Meanwhile, Samsung's market share jumped about 10 percentage points, Lenovo and Asus gained ground, but most of all, a group of "others," which likely includes Amazon's Kindle Fire and Microsoft's Surface families, has eaten Apple's lunch, growing about 20 percentage points in a two-year span.China’s Huawei was the big winner in June quarter smartphone sales, according to IDC.

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THE TABLET WARS: Leaders and Laggards and also rans

The tablet market grew by 11% over last year. The figure would have been higher had it not been for a decline of 1.5% in the second quarter of 2014, as opposed to the first quarter. The reason for the decline: Large enterprises are holding off on purchasing decisions. 

According to Jean Philippe Bouchard, IDC's director for tablets,Apple still leads the tablet market, but it hasn't had a good quarter as far as sales figures go. The iPad has lost ground to both Android and Windows tablets.

 Apple shipped 13.3 million units, a decline of 9.3% year-on-year. The company's market share stood at 26.9%. Apple has announced plans to fight back, and it is pinning its hopes on the enterprise sector to drive growth. 

 Samsung, Apple's biggest rival, had a mixed year and shipped 8.5 million units in  Q2,  2014 and saw its market share increase by 1.6% yoy. Samsung struggled to maintain its momentum and saw its market share slip to 17.2% in the second quarter.Lenevo shipped 2.4 million units and moved up to the No 3 ranking, displacing Asus from its position.

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Out of 42.8 Mn Mobile Phones Sold Online In China ,40% market share is held by Xiaomi and Samsung

42.8 Mn Mobile Phones Sold Online In China In 2013 — China Internet Watch: "The ranking of online mobile phone sales volume in main B2C platforms (Xiaomi official website excluded) in 2013 showed that Samsung led the online market with 20% share, if Xiaomi official website included, Xiaomi ranked the top with 23.9%, Samsung dropped to the second with 16%."

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PC Sales Touch Bottom, 80million shipments lowest since 2008

The PC Industry Shrank Another 9%, Gartner Says | Business Insider India: "Gartner released its quarterly PC report and the news isn't good. But it isn't all bad either.

Worldwide, the PC industry declined another 8.6% to 80.3 million units total. That's the lowest number of PC sold in a quarter since the economy crashed in 2008, Gartner analyst Mikako Kitagawa said."

Lenovo was still the No. 1 biggest vendor worldwide, with nearly 18% share, a position it took from HP last quarter. HP had 17% share, Dell had nearly 12%, Acer had 8% and Asus had 6%.

The good news was that the PC industry actually grew 3.5% over the year-ago quarter in the U.S. This is the "back-to-school" quarter and that's why people were buying more PCs

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Worldwide PC Shipments Slumps 10%, Lenevo tops Global Market

In terms of Marketshare ,HP and Lenovo'continue to drive more that 30%  of the global PC  market, as both the rivals continue " to run neck to neck" with Lenevo taking the No 1 spot, with a slender margin.The Bulk of  Lenevo's sales came from US and MENA nations while it declined in Asia Pacific .

Gartner Says Worldwide PC Shipments in the Second Quarter of 2013 Declined 10.9 Percent: "Worldwide PC shipments dropped to 76 million units in the second quarter of 2013, a 10.9 percent decrease from the same period last year, according to preliminary results by Gartner, Inc. This marks the fifth consecutive quarter of declining shipments, which is the longest duration of decline in the PC market’s history.

All regions showed a decline compared to a year ago. The fall in the Asia/Pacific PC market continued, showing five consecutive quarters of the shipment decline, while the EMEA PC market registered two consecutive quarters of double-digit decline."In the US Market HP and Dell dominated the PC Market with a combined marketshare of 50% , ( HP -26% Dell : 25%, while Apple and Lenevo took the 3rd and 4th Place respectively

According to Industry analysts "Weak Demand from China " was the main season of its decline across Asia Pacific as as the majority of Lenovo’s volume came from Chinamajority of Lenovo’s volume came from China

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iPad shipments increase by 75% in Q2,2012 as Global PC sales at all time high

The above chart is based on Gartner;s estimate on   preliminary PC unit sales for Q2
( based on Asymco figures)

Global  PC shipments rose 12% year on year in Q2 2012 led by iPads and Galaxy Tab as  Tablet sales  more than compensated for disappointing sales of Ultrabooks. This is according to Canalys research reported  in August,2012  

Apple's  iPads   continued to impact  PC sales and had  the biggest single impact on growth rates in the quarter,

However Asus and Samsung made progress with their Transformer and Galaxy Tab product lines. Total ipad shipments increased 75% to 24 million units, representing 22% of all PCs.

Apple continued to lead  the market with an estimated 19% share of global PC shipments led by more than 21 million  iPad shipments in Q2,2012 (this figure also includes desktops and notebooks) in Q2, compared to just over 13 million during the year-ago quarter, representing a massive 59.6-percent year-over-year growth for Apple 

HP, which led the way in Q1, has fallen to the second-place spot, with nearly 13.6 million shipments during the quarter ending yesterday, followed by Lenovo with about 13.2 million, Acer with nearly 10.7 million and Dell with roughly 9.7 million .ASUS and Samsung  together  accounted for  40.6 million devices sold in Q2,2012

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