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Comment by ekianjo | Hacker News Reader

That kind of market share in volume is useless. The market share in value is much more relevant. Selling 100 usd smartphones is not the same as selling 1000 usd smartphones.

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What are the statistics for those?

The statistics are as following: Huawei made a few 1000 usd smartphones, but nearly went bankrupt and had to sell their mobile division.

Did they sell everything mobile or just the Honor brand?

Huawei's fate had nothing to do with markets or with the price of their phones though.

So for 2021 the revenue share is

Apple 44%

Samsung 16%

BBK Electronics 16% (Oppo/OnePlus/Realme 8%, Vivo 8%)

Xiaomi 8%

Others 16%

That's according to Counterpoint Research [1]

Profitability appears to be even more skewed in favour of Apple but I don't know the exact numbers.

It would be interesting to know what's included in that 16% others category as that's where any challengers would be coming from.

[1] https://www.counterpointresearch.com/global-smartphone-reven...

Note that OPPO/OnePlus/Realme isn't BBK, as original report distinguishes. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27871845

Wikipedia claims that BBK is the parent company of Oppo and Vivo, in the case of Oppo based on this government source:

https://web.archive.org/web/20160423202414/http://www.dg.gov...

Unfortunately, I don't know what the authoritative source for company information is in China. It can't be blog posts and media reports I suppose.

Interesting. I found OPPO and vivo's official response for a question. It seems that it should be distinguished for statistics, though they share origin and founders. https://zhidao.baidu.com/question/557027909615399132.html https://zhidao.baidu.com/question/1606300474779701827.html

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