As per the sales data of April 2020, Huawei has become the world’s largest smartphone company beating the tech giants Samsung and Apple. The reports are surprisingly bizarre for the phone market watchers since the US had, in the recent past, restricted the sale and supply chain of Huawei. The Chinese smartphone maker has topped the mobile phone sales giving it some respite from the past turbulences.
Huawei becomes the largest smartphone seller leaving Apple and Samsung Behind.
The research team of Counterpoint revealed the numbers confirming to the report by Gizmo china that Huawei was the world’s number one smartphone maker with a 19% market share for April,”, Samsung has 17 percent of the market share.
Growth despite blacklisted by the US
The United States of America had imposed a ban on Huawei, which led to Google taking its support from Huawei phones; this gave a significant setback to the Chinese phone company. The coronavirus also hit China first, and the sales of the phones were impacted massively. However, China began to recover from the coronavirus crisis early, helping the company to reprise faster.
Chinese markets began to recover from the Covid-19 crisis first
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The domestic markets for Huawei started getting better comparatively prior thus, Huawei managed to sell more phones than the other counterparts reigning the sales figures. However, for how long the top spot would retain with Huawei is mainly dependent on how fast Samsung gets back on the track and how fast its sales get normal.
Success depends on the domestic market
As per the internal reports, prior to covid crisis, Huawei estimated its year on year decline starting 2020. The impact of coronavirus on the smartphone industry has started to show up, and the markets are quite volatile. No one knows which manufacturer would survive the stressed markets and low demand; however, Huawei’s most massive bet lies in its local Chinese markets.
Tough competition from Xiaomi
Xiaomi, a Huawei local competitor, has also fared very in the global markets has the advantage is still being on Google platform. It is interesting to see how Huawei would be able to strategize its sales and marketing to retain the top position.