It's bizarre and misleading that the author didn't take the shifts in the Chinese market in the last year or two into account. The article starts out with a sta

It's bizarre and misleading that the author didn't take the shifts in the Chinese market in the last year or two into account. The article starts out with a statement about smartphone sales being down in America across the board, but then slips into analyzing worldwide sales numbers per vendor, leading to the conclusion from the headline. My understanding is that the majority of those shifts are from changing patterns of sales within China itself. Looking at changes in worldwide shipments without singling out how the market is changing amongst Chinese consumers is really weird given that people who follow this stuff closely have been talking about exactly that for a long time now. If you treat the numbers within China separately from the numbers outside of China (which makes sense because completely different forces are driving those numbers inside and outside of China), then in the non-Chinese market, we would see similar patterns (Apple and Samsung down, Huawei up) but on a much smaller scale, and for different reasons. The author should've picked up on the influence of the Chinese market and focused on why it's been changing so dramatically of late. That would've been a far more insightful and interesting article. This is just a bunch of numbers graphed for maximum drama without context.