What sales slump? The iPhone X was the world's popular smartphone in Q1

What sales slump? The iPhone X was the world's popular smartphone in Q1

Despite analyst predictions, the iPhone X nabs the smartphone sales crown, shipping sixteen million units.

The iPhone X was the popular smartphone within the world throughout the primary quarter of 2018, contradicting analysts' soft sales predictions.

Apple's flagship telephone shipped sixteen million units throughout the primary 3 months of the year, per figures discharged Thursday by market investigator Strategy Analytics. Apple additionally nabbed following 2 spots on the list with the iPhone eight and iPhone eight and, that sold twelve.5 million units and eight.3 million units, severally.

Smartphone vendors area unit finding it more durable to woo consumers with the newest and greatest smartphones. there have been worries that even 2017's iPhone X, Apple's initial major iPhone design in 3 years, hadn't gotten customers excited concerning phones once more. The phone -- that starts at $999, $300 quite the four.7-inch iPhone eight and $200 quite the five.5-inch iPhone eight and -- is that the costliest iPhone Apple has ever created, and folks are holding onto their "good enough" devices longer than before. 

Fears that Apple would report dismal iPhone sales were allayed once the corporate according Tuesday that iPhone unit sales rose a pair of.9 % year over year within the second quarter. CEO Tim Cook same the iPhone X was the top-selling Apple device weekly of the quarter. 

"For the second quarter running, the iPhone X remains the world's hottest smartphone model overall, owing to a mix of fine style, refined camera, in depth apps, and widespread retail presence for the device," Juha Winter, senior analyst at Strategy Analytics, same in a very statement. "Apple has currently shipped nearly fifty million iPhone X units worldwide since business launch in Nov 2017."
within the weeks leading up to Apple's results, analyst once analyst cut earnings estimates and warned the iPhone boom times may be over. They based mostly their fears on results from Apple's part suppliers, together with Samsung, nearly universally warned concerning weakness within the mobile market.

The Xiaomi Redmi 5A and Samsung Galaxy S9 and were the world's top-selling golem smartphones, shipping 5.4 million and five.3 million units, severally.