Today, Counterpoint, a world-renowned research organization, released the latest smart phone market shipments in the third quarter of the year in China. The report shows that compared with the third quarter of 2016, shipments to the Chinese market in the third quarter of 2017 slowed down. Overall, Shipments fell 1%.
Specific to the manufacturers rankings, OPPO in the third quarter with 18.9% market share won the first.Huawei and vivo this quarter, market share continued to be 18.6%, ranked second and third.Millet strong growth, with a 13.8% share Ranked fourth in this quarter, Apple share increased simultaneously, but still ranked fifth.
James Yan, research director at Counterpoint Research, said: "Although OPPO and vivo experienced a slowdown in quarter growth over the previous year, the overall pace of growth remained stable and healthy with OPPO R11 being the best-selling model for the quarter. Quarterly growth (+ 23% YoY) was stronger than the same period last year, mainly due to more product segments with different price ranges, adapted to different consumers.
For millet this quarter results, Counterpoint Research analysts said millet strong recovery is mainly to strengthen the supply chain, access to key components.However, millet sales of most products are still biased toward the low-end, high-end models millet mix 2 success will be able to pull Brand Value.