{"id":281676,"date":"2025-04-14T13:46:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T13:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/14\/apple-takes-top-spot-in-first-quarter-global-smartphone-sales\/"},"modified":"2025-04-14T13:46:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T13:46:12","slug":"apple-takes-top-spot-in-first-quarter-global-smartphone-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/14\/apple-takes-top-spot-in-first-quarter-global-smartphone-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Takes Top Spot In First-Quarter Global Smartphone Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2025-04\/mecvbk5k_apple_625x300_14_April_25.jpeg?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Apple Takes Top Spot In First-Quarter Global Smartphone Sales\" title=\"Apple Takes Top Spot In First-Quarter Global Smartphone Sales\" \/><\/div>\n<div id=\"ignorediv\">\n                                        <!-- Story Text --><\/p>\n<p>Apple took the top spot for global smartphone sales in the first quarter on the back of the iPhone 16e&#8217;s launch and strong demand in countries such as Japan and India, data from Counterpoint Research showed on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHY IT&#8217;S IMPORTANT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Counterpoint expects the smartphone market to decline this year, due to economic uncertainty and tariffs imposed by U.S. president Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p><!--MIDTABOOLA--><\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s back-and-forth tariffs and escalation of global trade tensions has resulted in a worsening economic outlook and the possibility of stronger inflation.<\/p>\n<p>A volatile macroeconomic environment can cause consumers to postpone the purchase of mobile phones, unsettling the supply chain and increasing trade risks which can negatively impact the market, the report said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>KEY QUOTE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As per our current estimates, the tariff announcement did not lead to a major demand increase because of the uncertainty around tariffs and policy. Since Tariffs were announced in April, it did not impact iPhone demand in Q1 2025,&#8221; said Ankit Malhotra, senior research analyst at Counterpoint.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BY THE NUMBERS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The global smartphone market grew 3% in the first quarter of 2025, but Counterpoint expects the overall market to decline this year.<\/p>\n<p>Samsung followed Apple with 18% market share. Xiaomi also continued its sales momentum while vivo took the fourth spot and OPPO came in at fifth.<\/p>\n<p><!--#VuukleAD--><\/p>\n<p><i>(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>                                                                                <!-- Featured Video --><br \/>\n                                                                                                                        <!-- Recommended Widget -->\n                                                                                                                    <\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/world-news\/apple-takes-top-spot-for-first-quarter-global-smartphone-sales-8161886#publisher=newsstand\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple took the top spot for global smartphone sales in the first quarter on the back of the iPhone 16e&#8217;s launch and strong demand in countries such as Japan and India, data from Counterpoint Research showed on Monday. WHY IT&#8217;S IMPORTANT Counterpoint expects the smartphone market to decline this year, due to economic uncertainty and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2025-04\/mecvbk5k_apple_625x300_14_April_25.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[604],"tags":[828,218251,5093,377,826,2022,4021,218250,2345,1074,1846,218252],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281676"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281678,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281676\/revisions\/281678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}