Well we already knew Apple had been having a pretty rough week, you know, as the company recounted details about a ho-hum quarter last Tuesday during the quarterly conference call with investors. And now it seems the bits-and-pieces details about exactly where Apple currently stands in the mobile device market are beginning to make their way to the surface.
For instance, we have this latest bit of information, originally uncovered by independent research firm, IDC, which reveals that Apple’s global market share has fallen by 15.3% within the March quarter of 2016. Moreover, this statistic is consistent with IDC’s assessment of a current depression materializing in the global smartphone market.
During Tuesday’s conference call, Apple reported a mere 51.2 million iPhone shipments during the 3-month quarter ending March 26th. This modest quantity, down just a cool 10 million (compared to approximately 61.2 million shipments) during the same quarter of 2015.
As for total smartphone shipments, by all manufacturers, the total shipments for this quarter was approximately 334.9 million units — a modest increase of 500,000 units from this same quarter of last year.
Source: idropnews.com