14 DAY TRIAL // There was a time when Huawei was dreaming about becoming the world’s number one phone maker, but then the U.S. government banned the company from working with American firms and we all know what happened.
Since May 2019 when Huawei was added to the Entity List in the United States, sales of the Chinese tech behemoth have gradually declined, dropping more and more down to a point where the company itself acknowledged that it must focus on other businesses to offset the collapse in mobile.
And according to new data provided by IDC for the Chinese market, Huawei has declined substantially even in its home market, which at one point was considered by many the company’s only choice to remain big in mobile.
In other words, even Chinese buyers started looking for other phones, with Huawei no longer being part of the top 5 companies in its domestic market.
Honor currently ranked fifth
Vivo is currently the number one phone maker in China, as it sold 18.6 million units in the last quarter. This means the company secured a market share of 23.8 percent in the country, so nearly one in four phones sold in China came with a Vivo badge.
OPPO was the runner-up during the quarter with no less than 16.5 million sold phones. This allowed the company to gain 21.1 percent market share, therefore getting pretty close to leader Vivo. Xiaomi was third in the charts with 17.2 percent and 13.4 million sold phones.
In other words, Vivo, OPPO, and Xiaomi control more than 62 percent of the mobile phone market in China, and this shows just how much Huawei has declined lately.
The only good news is that Honor, previously a Huawei brand but now an independent company, secured the fifth place with an 8.8 percent market share, only two percentage points behind fourth-placed Apple.