On the other hand, Apple, in the first quarter of this year, its market share declined from 17.9% to 14.8%. This is the first time Apple reported a decline in sales of the iPhone. Apple only managed to sell a total of 51.629 million units of iPhone in the first quarter of this year. This means that Samsung beat Apple in the smartphone market in the first quarter of 2016.
In addition to Samsung and Apple, there are three Chinese smartphone manufacturer who occupied positions three, four and five in the first quarter of this year, if sorted namely Huawei, Oppo and Xiaomi. First quarter sales results Oppo is very surprising, because Oppo managed to increase sales by 145% in three months. However, they still have not managed to exceed Huawei.
While on the operating system, Android leads with a market share of 84% in the first quarter smartphone sales this year. In total smartphone which has been sold from January to March as many as 349.3 million units. The total number increased by 3.9% from the first quarter of last year that as many as 336.6 million.
