Apple’s standard iPhone lineup is as soon as once more a high vendor relating to world smartphone gross sales. The Cupertino agency’s array of gadgets occupied 8 of the highest 10 slots within the 2022 world smartphone gross sales rankings.
The iPhone has lengthy proved standard amongst smartphone patrons, because it recurrently snags high slots on smartphone gross sales lists. 2022 was no exception. Fashions from Apple’s iPhone 12, iPhone 13, iPhone 14, and iPhone SE lineups took 8 spots on the Counterpoint Analysis checklist of the International Prime 10 Smartphones.
The checklist is predicated on information from Counterpoint Analysis’s International Month-to-month Handset Mannequin Gross sales Tracker. The iPhone 13, iPhone 13 Professional Max, and iPhone 14 Professional Max took spots 1, 2, and three, respectively.
The iPhone 13 took a 5% share of the market in 2022, adopted by 2.6% for the iPhone 13 Professional Max, then 1.7% for the iPhone 14 Professional Max. The iPhone 13 Professional’s 1.6% share was good for fifth place with 1.6%, the iPhone 12 took sixth with 1.5%, the iPhone 14 snagged seventh with 1.4%, and the iPhone 14 Professional was eighth with 1.2% of gross sales. The 2022 iPhone SE rounded out Apple’s high slots by taking ninth place with 1.1% of gross sales.
The iPhone 12 was the oldest mannequin within the 2022 high 10 checklist. The gadget was the top-selling smartphone in 2021. The iPhone 12 continued to promote nicely in Japan, the US, and China. Counterpoint Analysis says the gadget benefited from value cuts after the iPhone 13 lineup debuted and its 5G capabilities continued to make it a horny gadget.
The iPhone SE 2022, grabbed the tenth spot, managing to promote nicely in Japan.
Samsung was the one different smartphone producer on Counterpoint Analysis’s checklist, taking fourth place with 1.6% for its Galaxy A13, and tenth place with its Galaxy A03 at 1.1%.
Apple’s iPhone 13 impressively held first place within the 2022 smartphone gross sales race from January to August. The iPhone fell to the nonetheless fairly respectable 4th spot and was the best-selling smartphone in a number of world markets such because the UK, the US, China, Germany, and France.
Apple’s “Professional Max” mannequin drove extra gross sales quantity than different fashions within the “13” era, marking the primary time that has occurred. The iPhone 14 Professional Max held firmly onto the highest spot within the rankings from September to November. Early adopters and people upgrading to a better variant are stated to have pushed gross sales of the “Professional Max” iPhone variant.
“We consider the share of the highest 10 smartphones will improve in 2023 as manufacturers deal with clearing stock and optimizing their launches,” ~ Counterpoint’s forecast for 2023
“We additionally count on manufacturers to proceed making their portfolios leaner in 2023 to attenuate cannibalization. The variety of energetic smartphone fashions within the world market has already fallen from over 4,200 in 2021 to round 3,600 in 2022.”
Though we’ll probably see this proceed within the 2023 smartphone market, Apple is anticipated to proceed to supply its full iPhone product vary.
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