Domestic brands beat Apple again in China's smartphone market this year · TechNode

As it stated in Domestic brands beat Apple again in China's smartphone market this year | In In With Chinese Characteristics | By By Bailey HuOn Tuesday, Umeng.com (友盟+) released a report on China's smartphone market that reveals Oppo and Vivo, along with Huawei and its sub-brand Honor, dominated the domestic field from January through August of this year. According to Umeng's chart of the top six smartphone brands, Oppo and Vivo were nearly head-to-head with 20.7% and 20.1% of the market, respectively. However, if Huawei and its ranking sub-brand Honor are combined, they beat out all other competitors with 22.6% of China's smartphone market. That gave it a boost in the competitiveness chart, where its 79.9 rating fell not far behind Vivo and Oppo. Not-so-surprisingly, phones and screens in the domestic market have continued to grow in size.

OnePlus beats Samsung, Apple to lead premium smartphone segment

OnePlus has held on to its top position in the premium smartphone segment in India by maintaining its lead over electronics giants Samsung and Apple. According to Hong Kong-based Counterpoint Research, the Chinese brand's flagship, the OnePlus 6 was the most-sold product in the premium segment in the third quarter of 2018. Launched in May 2018, the OnePlus 6 has been the best-selling smartphone for the company in India. Interestingly, this is the second consecutive time that OnePlus emerged as the leader in the premium smartphones segment, wherein devices are priced above Rs 30,000. "The premium smartphone segment in India is steadily growing, and OnePlus seeks to more effectively tap into this space, with a nifty strategy combining both online and offline platforms for a holistic reach," said Vikas Agarwal, General Manager, OnePlus India on the smartphone maker's decision to have offline presence.

Samsung, Apple fined over treatment of older-generation smartphone customers

as declared in For the frugal, though, there's less of a need to constantly upgrade. 'To limit the occurrence of such inconveniences, Apple released, in February 2017, a new update (iOS 10.2.1), without warning consumers that its installation could reduce the speed of execution and functionality of devices. In addition, Apple did not offer any specific support measures for iPhones that had experienced such operating problems and were no longer covered by the legal warranty; only in December 2017 Apple provided for the possibility to replace batteries at a discounted price. The result of the investigation: €5 million fines against both companies with regard to the performance-sapping software updates, with an additional €5 million for Apple for its failure to inform consumers about how to maintain the non-user-replaceable batteries in their smartphones. Both companies are also requested to publish a declaration on their Italian websites containing a link to the Authority's decision.

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