Tim Cook touted the success of the iPhone X during this week’s Q2 earnings call, with a couple of notable facts. First, he said, the iPhone X had been the best-selling iPhone every single week of Q1. Second, it was the best-selling smartphone in China.
But today the iPhone X has an even greater claim to fame: it was the top-selling smartphone not just in China, but worldwide …
Strategy Analytics said that the iPhone repeated the success it achieved in the launch quarter.
The firm estimated that cumulative sales of the iPhone X between launch and the end of March reached almost 50M units.
We estimate the Apple iPhone X shipped 16.0 million units and captured 5 percent marketshare worldwide in Q1 2018. For the second quarter running, the iPhone X remains the world’s most popular smartphone model overall, due to a blend of good design, sophisticated camera, extensive apps, and widespread retail presence for the device
Strategy Analytics reported that the next three places on the bestseller list were all occupied by iPhones.
Apple marketing SVP Phil Schiller celebrated the announcement with a tweet.
IDC yesterday reported that iPhone models saw almost 3% growth worldwide in the quarter, at a time when the market as a whole fell 2.9%.
#Apple #iPhone X “World’s Best-Selling Smartphone” https://t.co/2knl2QmA0e
— Philip Schiller (@pschiller) May 4, 2018
Photo: Peter Nicholls/Reuters
