Huawei celebrated its annual innovation conference last week ... in Paris. The Chinese company extends throughout the world despite the veto imposed from the US, a restriction currently in the truce phase but which would apply from the 19th of this month if an agreement does not remedy it before. The Chinese company, leader in telecommunications equipment, also stands out in the manufacture of smartphones : only the South Korean Samsung sells more phones.
Although what happens in Huawei depends on what is decided in the US, the company places more and more mobile phones around the world, 66.8 million in the last quarter, according to the consultancy Canalys; an amount that would represent a market share of 19% . Thanks to a 29% rise over the data achieved a year earlier, the Shenzhen firm is the one that makes the most progress among all companies. Samsung , with a share of 22.4% , does not increase its sales at the same rate, and Apple lags behind, with 12.3% . Xiaomi (9.1%) and Oppo (9.1%), both Chinese, now approach their records to those of the Palo Alto company.
The sale of smarthones has finally reactivated, as can also be seen above in the sector chart, and this comeback corroborates a trend: the asiatization of the mobile phone , the star product of global consumption.
In fact, the two companies that sell the most devices, Samsung and Huawei, are both the most advanced in the deployment of 5G networks, the mobile communications standard of the future. While the main Asian companies already sell models with 5G connection, Apple is not expected to include it until September 2020, on the occasion of its media presentation each year.
Not worth with the iPhone X
The US company, which came to enter more than 60,000 million dollars per quarter for iPhone deliveries, in the last quarter barely exceeded 30,000 million, despite the positive impact of the iPhone X on the accounts. For the final stretch of the year, Apple is entrusted to the iPhone 11 , released last September, as well as on the key dates of Black Friday , at the end of November, and the last Christmas push.
Apple's latest economic results are undeniably positive, but those of Huawei seem even better. William Xu, president of the Institute for Strategic Research of the Chinese company, recalled in Paris to EL MUNDO that its global revenues have increased by 24.4% in the first nine months of 2019, despite the veto. Ren Zhengfei, founder of the company, said that this year they would ship between 240 and 250 million new phones.
The Shenzhen company has been forced to develop its own operating system in the event that Google, Californian, finally denies Huawei access to Android, as well as all applications linked to the search engine.
Spain, another eastern territory
The Spanish market is also Asian. In number of phones sold, according to September data provided to this newspaper from the sector, Samsung accounted for 29% share and Huawei 21% . The third position would be for another Chinese brand, Xiaomi, with 16%, and off the podium would be Apple, with 12%. The Chinese company is recovering, because it has gone through a bump: in June its share dropped to 11% of total device sales.
However, the revenues vary according to the price of the phones, and those of Apple are usually in the high range. Therefore, if the value is observed and not the units of sales, Samsung and Apple are at the top, with a third share each (33%). Huawei, in this classification, would stay at 16% and Xiaomi at 10%.
In the Chinese market , Huawei also expands its domain, to the point of having grown 66% year-on-year, according to another Canalys report. In the third quarter of 2019, that brand now accounts for 42.4% of the country's sales, a great distance of 5.2% from Apple.
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