Daily Data Dive: Apple’s Shrinking Marketshare

Though Apple probably didn’t need much in the way of more bad news, more ill tidings have come to call — nonetheless in the form of Kantar Worldpanel’s latest figures that indicate that Apple’s iPhone 6s/6s Plus did worse than Samsung’s equivalent Galaxy S7/S7 Edge in terms of sales.

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    How much worse?

    Here it is by the numbers:

    88%| Percentage of Apple users planning to stay loyal through their next phone upgrade (Samsung has 86% loyalty)

    37%| Total percentage of smartphone sales Samsung represented during the three months that ended in May

    29%| Total percent of smartphone sales Apple represented during the same period

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    16% | The percentage of consumers who purchase Samsung phones

    14.6%| The percentage of consumers who opted for Apple phones during the same time period.