The first quarter of 2024 has ended, and with it comes the summary season where Apple’s iPhone 15 Pro Max was the big winner. And this phone has been the best-selling phone in the world for the first three months of the year.
According to the data we can see in Counterpoint Research, Apple’s latest flagship took 4.4% of global smartphone sales. This places it above the iPhone 15 itself and the iPhone 15 Pro as the best-selling phones of the first 3 months of 2024.
iPhone 15 Pro Max, the big winner of the first quarter of 2024
Apple has managed to position 4 phones in the Top 5 best-selling phones in the world. And it is only in fourth place that Samsung appears with its Galaxy S24 Ultra in the ranking. Latest flagship The Korean company sold 1.9% of smartphones worldwide in the first quarter, an advance compared to 1.3% last year with the S23 Ultra.
The numbers don’t lie, and once again the 10 best-selling phones in the world are from Apple and Samsung. As in the first quarter of 2023, there are 5 Apple phones and 5 Samsung phones that appear in the Top 10 best-selling phones.
The second quarter is already underway. And we expect that this quarter Apple and Samsung numbers will go down a little. After all, this quarter there will be no major phone launches from either the Cupertino company or the Korean company.
