Across the world, the biggest smartphone manufacturers are Apple (28%), Samsung (24%), Xiaomi (12%), Oppo (6%) and Vivo (5%). However, there are geographic patterns in popularity, with Apple dominating North America and East Asia, while Samsung leads in South America, Europe, Africa and West Asia in addition to its home turf of South Korea. Xiaomi is the most popular phone brand across South Asia, Spain, Venezuela, Ukraine, Madagascar, Kyrgyzstan and Palestine, while Tecno is popular in West and Central Africa. Oppo, Vivo and Huawei lead in Indonesia, Bhutan and Togo respectively.

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c/fuck_the_colorblind

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I’m not colorblind and I find this a PITA to read.

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Lol and the two biggest are close in color as well. At least make those two clear distinct colors.

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Are we supposed to stop using colours because clourblind people exist?

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No. We are supposed to not exclude them by conveying information through other means than exclusively colour.

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yes, please.

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Lol I just wanted to comment that. Not blind, just hard to see but I gave up after10sec trying to decipher. It’s just such a bad diagram

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Sorry, but I couldn’t find 12 distinct colours that all lie on the blue - yellow spectrum.

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Why are you sticking with a specific spectrum? You made it hard to read in service of a requirement that doesn’t make any sense.

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You overestimate my artistic abilities. I took the default colour palette LibreOffice gave, and replaced a few with ones that clash less.

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India and China’s got as much variety as their population it seems. “Other” brands having a higher market share in China than the most used brand is interesting.

Also those colors suck.

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Okay Nigeria, what the hell is Tecno? How is it beating every manufacturer on the planet in your country?

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A Chinese low cost manufacturer from Shenzhen. Their parent company is actually one of the Top 5 manufacturers - but none in the North/West has heard of them.

They were specifically founded to provide smartphones for low and medium income markets like Africa, India, etc. Meanwhile they also manufacture phones there.

Their parent company holds almost 50% of the African market share.

They are actually producing decent phones by now - had the chance to take a look of one of their most recent phones a few weeks back. 5G, dual SIM, dedicated microSD slot, headphones jack (yes Lemmy!) and a big battery - but the camera and display were mediocre. Overall still a decent phone for a good price, even though they don’t sell them everywhere and I would be weary of the updates issue.

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Interesting. Thanks for the info especially about the quality of their phones. I found info about the company but not much about real world use of their products. Appreciate it.

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In addition to what philpo said, they also provide good language support for many African languages, something no other vendor does.

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I didn’t even consider that. Thank you for the info.

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Decent cheap brand. They’re actually centered in Nigeria and as such they have a big market there

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Source?

Apple domintaing in … Europe

Even your map doesn’t support this claim.

Belarus is marked as a country where Apple dominates, even though this is not true: Redmi (Xiaomi) and Samsung phones are more popular there (link)

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And it seems like the situation in Russia is similar: Apple is the 4th most popular brand (2023, link).

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I’m using data from StatCounter, as mentioned in the figure. See Belarus and Russia. They could be wrong; their figures are based on website hits.

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Wait. Apple can’t be ruling in, East Asian countries. Personal experience. (Should not be in China as well.)

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Look at the bar chart below. Apple has almost a two-third marketshare in Japan, but only about 20% in China. But China has a variety of Android manufacturers, so that Apple is the single biggest vendor.

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