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This is a list of brand market shares, incorrectly labeled as vendor market shares. The largest smartphone vendor is BBK Electronics. They manufacture multiple
by nabla9 5y ago
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.
- Wronnay 5y agoBut 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.
- nabla9 5y agoIt does not matter. Shareholders must take into account private competitors. This article was labeled wrong and missed the biggest company.
- Wronnay 5y agoI 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.
- baybal2 5y agoSurprise, 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
- fomine3 5y agoI read mobile industry mania's blogpost written in Japanese, it argues that OPPO was delivered from BBK but there are no capital relationship between BBK Communication Technology and OPPO(Guangdong Oujia Holdings). It also refers Nikkei's article confirmed that. http://blogofmobile.com/article/121143 http://blogofmobile.com/article/121143 I searched and it seems true. https://www.qichamao.com/orgcompany/searchitemdtl/e6f25044f98a7ad6624460e32863758d.html https://www.qichamao.com/orgcompany/searchitemdtl/e6f25044f9... https://www.aitouyan.com/news/7877.html https://www.aitouyan.com/news/7877.html (read via translate!)
- Wronnay 5y agoIt's really confusing because so many Wikipedia and Media Articles write that Oppo is a Subsidiary of BBK...
- fomine3 5y agoI wish English writer investigate about this topic
- ksec 5y agoThey are not, in the straight sense of Subsidiary. >A subsidiary, subsidiary company or daughter company is a company owned or controlled by another company, Hence that is why using BBK as one would have been wrong. BBK does not own majority of shares, nor de jure voting power. But in a complex power relationship BBK do have much higher leverage or with other investor de facto voting power. Think if Foxconn decided to invest into 5 different Phone making companies, ( Like the current Nokia Smartphone ) and Foxconn is a shareholder and provide technical and manufacturing consultancy, you would not list them all under Foxconn right? I wont blame the English main stream media most of them are so late to anything from Japan and China it is borderline comical. I mean when I first mentioned BBK in 2015 no one had a clue what I was talking about. My earliest comment on BBK on HN was from Jan 2018 [1]. Barely anyone knew BBK then. As a matter of fact even right now not that many have heard of BBK. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16265008 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16265008
- richardwhiuk 5y agoShouldn't Apple be under Foxconn by that logic?