Global smartphone sales are plummeting, but Apple has so far managed to avoid the worst, with one surprising result.
How Apple's iPhone Overtook Samsung as World's Best Smartphone
Sales of phones from Samsung and other smartphone makers are suffering from the effects of a slowing economy, while the iPhone is expected to see modest growth. As a result, Apple is poised to overtake Samsung as the world’s leading smartphone maker. And that could be bad news for iPhone users.
"While the competition between the smartphone types has certainly contributed to the maturity of each respective platform, they've taken very different routes to their current feature sets. Apple releases iOS features in a very methodical manner, waiting until the technologies and user interfaces are mature and ready for everyday customers, while Android tends to embrace the very latest functionality, sometimes at the expense of stability," Alexis Talarico, team lead at mobile app company Swenson He, told Lifewire via email. "Unless one platform or the other disappears entirely, which would be highly unlikely in the near to medium term, there will continue to be a push-and-pull between the two ecosystems."
The pace of smartphone innovation over the past 15 years has been staggering. It’s hard to think of another product category where things have moved so quickly. That’s partly because multi-touch, all-screen smartphones have become an entirely new category, partly because smartphones have become the way the majority of the world uses computers and goes online, and partly because this huge sales potential breeds competition.
