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Xiaomi becomes number two smartphone vendor for first time ever in Q2 2021

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Re: Xiaomi becomes number two smartphone vendor for first time ever in Q2 2021

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Post by nabla9 »

This is a list of brand market shares, incorrectly labeled as vendor market shares.

The largest smartphone vendor is BBK Electronics. They manufacture multiple brands like Oppo, Vivo, OnePlus, Realme, iQOO. Their brands have over 40% market share in China, India, over 50% in Southeast Asia, and are generally the largest vendor all over the developing world.

The real list is

  1.  24% BBK Electronics 
      (10% Oppo, 10% Vivo, 4% Realme)
  2.  19% Samsung
  3.  17% Xiaomi 
  4.  14% Apple
  5.   4% Huawei
Chinese have ~45% of the market.

Re: Xiaomi becomes number two smartphone vendor for first time ever in Q2 2021

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Post by meibo »

They're flooding the market with good, very very cheap smartphones - it's no surprise.

Especially for older people that don't need $500+ flagships, a $150 Xiaomi is more than sufficient. I see them a lot nowadays.

Makes me wonder if it's sustainable.

Re: Xiaomi becomes number two smartphone vendor for first time ever in Q2 2021

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Post by Wronnay »

nabla9 wrote: post #2

This is a list of brand market shares, incorrectly labeled as vendor market shares. The largest smartphone vendor is BBK Electronics. They manufacture multiple brands like Oppo, Vivo, OnePlus, Realme, iQOO. Their brands have over 40% market share in China, India, over 50% in Southeast Asia, and are generally the largest vendor all over the developing world. The real list is 1. 24% BBK Electronics (10% Oppo, 10% Vivo,…

But BBK Electronics is a private company while Xiaomi is a public traded company - so this news article is in favor of speculators / shareholders of Xiaomi.

You can always try to display the statistics in your favor...

It should also be noted that Canalys lists Xiaomi as one of their clients - so, one could argue that Canalys has a conflict of interest.

Re: Xiaomi becomes number two smartphone vendor for first time ever in Q2 2021

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Post by nabla9 »

Wronnay wrote: post #5
nabla9 wrote: post #2

This is a list of brand market shares, incorrectly labeled as vendor market shares. The largest smartphone vendor is BBK Electronics. They manufacture multiple brands like Oppo, Vivo, OnePlus, Realme, iQOO. Their brands have over 40% market share in China, India, over 50% in Southeast Asia, and are generally the largest vendor all over the developing world. The real list is 1. 24% BBK Electronics (10% Oppo, 10% Vivo,…

But BBK Electronics is a private company while Xiaomi is a public traded company - so this news article is in favor of speculators / shareholders of Xiaomi. You can always try to display the statistics in your favor... It should also be noted that Canalys lists Xiaomi as one of their clients - so, one could argue that Canalys has a conflict of interest.

It does not matter. Shareholders must take into account private competitors.

This article was labeled wrong and missed the biggest company.

Re: Xiaomi becomes number two smartphone vendor for first time ever in Q2 2021

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Post by baybal2 »

Wronnay wrote: post #5
nabla9 wrote: post #2

This is a list of brand market shares, incorrectly labeled as vendor market shares. The largest smartphone vendor is BBK Electronics. They manufacture multiple brands like Oppo, Vivo, OnePlus, Realme, iQOO. Their brands have over 40% market share in China, India, over 50% in Southeast Asia, and are generally the largest vendor all over the developing world. The real list is 1. 24% BBK Electronics (10% Oppo, 10% Vivo,…

But BBK Electronics is a private company while Xiaomi is a public traded company - so this news article is in favor of speculators / shareholders of Xiaomi. You can always try to display the statistics in your favor... It should also be noted that Canalys lists Xiaomi as one of their clients - so, one could argue that Canalys has a conflict of interest.

Surprise, Xiaomi even contracted engineering, and manufacturing to BBK at some point.

In addition to their brand (of which few more are not counted above,) BBK still manufactures unbranded white box OEM goods

Re: Xiaomi becomes number two smartphone vendor for first time ever in Q2 2021

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Post by Wronnay »

nabla9 wrote: post #6
Wronnay wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But BBK Electronics is a private company while Xiaomi is a public traded company - so this news article is in favor of speculators / shareholders of Xiaomi. You can always try to display the statistics in your favor... It should also be noted that Canalys lists Xiaomi as one of their clients - so, one could argue that Canalys has a conflict of interest.

It does not matter. Shareholders must take into account private competitors. This article was labeled wrong and missed the biggest company.

I just wanted to describe that Canalys might know that BBK Electronics is bigger but wanted to display another picture to the world because of their own interest.

Xiaomi pays the bills of their employees, BBK doesn't.

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