(MENAFN) Apple Inc. has shipped 77.3 million smartphones across the world in the fourth quarter of last year, overtaking Samsung Electronics Co. in the global market.
Strategy Analytics said in a report that the US tech giant took first place with 19.3 percent global market share, pushing Samsung into second place.
Neil Mawston, Executive Director at Strategy Analytics said: "Samsung is under pressure from Chinese rivals in some major markets, like China and India, but it remains by far the largest smartphone brand on a global basis, shipping an unmatched 317.5 million units in full-year 2017."
According to the industry tracker, international smartphone shipments dropped 9 percent annually to reach 400 million units in the October-December period in 2017, marking the biggest annual fall in smartphone history due to a collapse in the huge China market.
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