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🌡️ Good morning, and welcome to another sunny Tuesday Daily Authority. It’s going to be 35C here today, which I think is a record for Scotland!
Smartphone shipments are falling
According to new figures from Canalys released yesterday, global smartphone shipments show a 9% year-over-year decline for the second quarter of 2022.
- Samsung has the largest market share at 21%, mainly thanks to the demand for its budget-friendly A-series phones.
- Apple is a close second with a 17% share as the iPhone 13 is still in high demand.
- Xiaomi, Oppo and Vivo are all still struggling in China, with 14%, 10% and 9% shares respectively.
- These numbers are a long way from the Q2 2021 reports which showed: Xiaomi was the number two smartphone brand worldwideand the number one smartphone brand in Europe, with a market share of 25.3%.
The drop isn’t a huge shock considering everything that’s happening in the world, and it’s a smaller drop than what we saw in the first quarter of 2022.
- In the first quarter, we saw the global smartphone market shrink by 11%.
- Every major Android manufacturer lost market share in Q1 2022.
- However, North American smartphone shipments were increased by 3.7% year after year.
- In the first quarter, Apple’s market share looked much healthier at 51%.
- Samsung came in second with 27%, with Motorola a close third and TCL and Google with 4% and 3% respectively.
What is causing the breakdown?
There are many reasons for the malaise:
- Consumers have slowed down their upgrade cycles as devices improved and became more robust.
- As a result – as well as the global chip shortage and more generally component deficiencies — telephones have also become more expensive (example: Sony’s Xperia 1 IV), and consumers are more cautious in uncertain economic times, with rising unemployment and inflation.
- Bottlenecks in the supply chain caused by tightening import laws and customs procedures delay shipments.
- From Canalys Research Analyst Runar Bjørhovde: “Economic headwinds, sluggish demand and a build-up of inventory have led suppliers to rapidly reassess their portfolio strategies for the remainder of 2022. purchases at the bottom.“
What will Q3 bring?
To round up
And nationwide bans Chromebooks due to Google’s data policy (android authority).
Snap launches Snapchat for the webbringing the app’s features to the desktop, initially for Snapchat Plus subscribers in the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand (TechCrunch).
🐈 Feline sci-fi adventure Stray landed today on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4 and PC, available to download for PS Plus Extra and Premium members at no extra cost, and reviews are in (The edge).
The Xbox Summer Sale has begun with great deals on games like Red Dead Redemption II, Far Cry and more, running until the end of the month (my box).
tuesday thing
However, he is not alone:
- The so-called “Peanut Push” is a local challenge that has been going on since the 1920s.
- Bill Williams did the same in 1929, although it took him 20 days – and presumably he did it to make $500 on a bet.
- In 1963, Ulysses Baxter completed the challenge and took eight days to complete.
Bob Salem began his journey to the summit on Saturday, July 9, at 9 a.m. and ended around sunrise on Friday, July 15. That’s not bad!
I hope you have a slightly less strenuous week than Bob,
Paula Beaton, text editor.