The best-selling tech product in 2017 was the iPhone, the gap is very huge compared to both second-ranked Samsung Galaxy S8 and Note 8, the number of purchased iPhones overtook the five ranked devices combined including Apple Watch, according to Daniel Ives, an analyst with GBH Insights, via USA Today.
Apple also dominated the chart in 2016 by selling 211 million phones, Ives said the company will increase the number by selling a total of 233 million iPhones in 2017.
Samsung was in the second place with its flagship smartphone Galaxy S8 and Note 8 with 33 million unit, Amazon Echo Dot ranked the third with 24 million unit followed by Apple Watch with 20 million and Nintendo Switch with 15 million devices.
The rankings include all new iPhone versions together iPhone X, iPhone 8 and 8 Plus, explaining why the gap is so large with Samsung Galaxy S8 and Note 8.
Samsung was in the second place with its flagship smartphone Galaxy S8 and Note 8 with 33 million unit, Amazon Echo Dot ranked the third with 24 million unit followed by Apple Watch with 20 million and Nintendo Switch with 15 million devices.
The rankings include all new iPhone versions together iPhone X, iPhone 8 and 8 Plus, explaining why the gap is so large with Samsung Galaxy S8 and Note 8.
But all in all, Apple sold more iPhones total, although less than the peak year of 2015, when it moved 230 million units. (That was the year of the iPhone 6, a redesign that brought a bigger iPhone to consumers for the first time and enthralled the public.)The Apple brand name is repeated in the fourth place again by Apple Watch, Ives described it as a product that’s now “found its niche” in the wearable market, unlike its first surface. This rank achieved thanks to less reliant on an iPhone that presents in LTE connectivity in 3 series, and improved battery life on the same model, the analyst also mentioned to ongoing discount for older models and how Apple trailed the device to the fitness crowd to become the best-selling wearable device.
Ives thinks Apple will have an even bigger 2018, with a spring update to its compact SE iPhone and more new phones in the fall. Out of the billion-plus consumer base of the iPhone, "350 million of them will upgrade next year," says Ives.
Before this week, in line with this rankings, data shared by mobile analytics firm Flurry found Apple’s iOS devices iPhone and iPad the most popular items gifted around the world through the holidays. Flurry has drawn up this information by looking at the amount of device activations from December 19 to December 25, noted that 44 percent of new device activations were for Apple, the company products dominated by iPhone 7 at 15.7, followed by iPhone X at 14.7 percent, iPhone 8 at 8.1 percent and iPhone 8 Plus sat at 8.7 percent.
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