Interesting. When I visited China last year, Samsung was the brand of phone I saw most often (which was apparently true given the data in this article). Yet whe

Interesting. When I visited China last year, Samsung was the brand of phone I saw most often (which was apparently true given the data in this article). Yet when your competitors offer phones nearly as reliable and feature-full at half the price, it's no surprise there's a shift happening. Though the increase in Apple suggests that this is not only a concern of price (the price of high-end Samsung phones were comparable to the price of iPhones). Maybe it's a matter of Samsung products being somewhere in the middle. Apple's phones feel like they have better construction, and a greater level of prestige associated with them. Xiaomi's phones, again, have a solid construction and decent features (in some instances, more features) at a vastly lower price point than Samsung's phones. Maybe Samsung's phones right now don't satisfy the wants of either camp, and are hurting now as a result? Edit: Not to mention Apple finally competing on phone size.