The iPhone 15 Pro Max was the top-selling smartphone within the first quarter of 2024, with iPhones occupying half the spots within the prime ten.
Apple and Samsung are nonetheless the highest two highest-selling smartphone distributors on the planet, and have been for a while. On a per mannequin foundation, although, plainly Apple’s persevering with to edge out its primary rival.
In an inventory of the highest ten best-selling smartphones on the planet for Q1 2024 by Counterpoint, the iPhone 15 Professional Max is in first place with a 4.4% market share. The note seen by AppleInsider says iPhone 15 was second with 4.3%, and the iPhone 15 Professional was third with 3.7%.
In fourth place was the iPhone 14 at 1.9%, narrowly beating the Samsung Galaxy S24 Extremely. The iPhone 15 Plus lags behind in eighth place with a 1.3% share.
The Q1 outcomes mirror these of Q1 2023, which had the iPhone 14 in first with 4.7% adopted by the iPhone 14 Pro Max at 4.3%. At the moment, Apple additionally had 5 gadgets within the prime ten record.
Counterpoint’s notes add that the quarter was the primary the place the highest 10 smartphones have been all 5G-capable.
This was additionally Apple first non-seasonal quarter that the Professional Max mannequin took first place.
Counterpoint claims there was additionally a significant shift in buying habits, with half of Apple’s whole gross sales in Q1 occupied by the Professional vary. In contrast, Professional fashions shaped solely 24% of purchases in Q1 2020, 4 years earlier.
The notice insists that is an evident pattern in direction of premium smartphones. Seven out of the highest ten have been classed as premium, specifically having a wholesale value at or above $600.
Beforehand, Counterpoint reported that Apple dominated throughout the whole of 2023. In February, it decided that iPhone made up seven spots within the prime ten smartphones bought in 2023 for the primary time.