iPhone 8 is worlds "hottest" smartphone

[DrMacintosh]

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For the first time ever, the iPhone 8 is the world’s best-selling smartphone. It beat out the Samsung Galaxy S9 and the iPhone X to take that spot.

Not entirely sure what the author was getting at when they wrote "for the first time ever," but regardless it would appear that the iPhone 8 has managed to beat all other smartphones, including Apples, despite being, arguably, an incremental upgrade. 

 

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Apple has three of the top ten most popular devices, something no other company can boast.

 

The iPhone 8 had 2.4 percent of global sales, according to market-research firm Counterpoint. That was in May, the most recent month for which figures are available.

 

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After once being the best selling phone globally, the iPhone X has slipped slightly in popularity, though its still has 2.3 percent of sales worldwide.

For any of you that were wondering what Apples other best seller was, you guessed it, it's the iPhone X. The Notch Strikes Back baby! 

 

Here is how the S9 line is staking up:

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The Galaxy S9+ continues to outsell the S9. Sales of the “Plus” were just behind the iPhone 8, but the smaller version has a 2.1 percent share. Counterpoint indicated that sales of both Galaxy S9 versions were slightly weak in Europe.

Would appear that Samsung has a good product on its hands with the S9. I have heard rumors of poor sales but obviously the reports of the Galaxy S9s death have been greatly exaggerated. 

 

In more localized news, Chinese brands are Apples biggest hurdle to smartphone world domination:

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The rest of May’s chart speaks to the strength of the Chinese phone market and companies based there. A Xiaomi model is actually outselling the iPhone 8 Plus and the Galaxy S9. And five of the top ten models come from this company, Huawei, Vivo, and OPPO.

 

 

Oh and do you remember HTC? Me neither:

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Notice HTC doesn’t appear on this list. That’s because it’s just barely alive.

 

Source: https://www.cultofmac.com/559797/iphone-8-smartphone-market-may-2018-counterpoint/

[Dabombinable]

Who here only remembers seeing HTC phones in the early days of Android?

[Droidbot]

TBH it sucks to see HTC bleed out slowly because I loved their UI/UX design language and device design language in the One M7/M8 days.

 

Cool news though.

[Jurrunio]

when you say 'hottest', I'm like 'oh well it has one of the fastest mobile SoC atm and no heatsink, what would you expect?' until I read the content

[hobobobo]

123456 is the worlds hottest password

or heart attack is the worlds hottest way to die

 

ye....

[Jurrunio]

1 minute ago, hobobobo said:

heart attack is the worlds hottest way to die

no, heat stroke is the world's hottest way to die

[DrMacintosh]

2 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

when you say 'hottest', I'm like 'oh well it has one of the fastest mobile SoC atm and no heatsink

Fixed  

[Christophe Corazza]

It's impressive that 3 of the top 5 are Apple. They make a good phone.

 

However, on the other hand, it's not that impressive when you consider that all of Apple's competitors have massively splintered lineups that cater to all price points and often include models that are exclusive to (or at least highly focused on) specific regions/markets. That makes each model's share very tiny. Apple's 15% overall market share is divided among only a few models.

[handymanshandle]

I gotta admit, having an S8+ myself the iPhone 8 is very tempting.

My mom has one and it seems pretty nice, but man iOS has changed so much.

[DrMacintosh]

5 minutes ago, pinksnowbirdie said:

I gotta admit, having an S8+ myself the iPhone 8 is very tempting.

My mom has one and it seems pretty nice, but man iOS has changed so much.

Its only getting better with 12. The gap of differences is almost non-existing for the average user.

 

There are always going to be those people who like android because they would rather run MS-DOS on their phone than just click an icon that they can't customize the look of  

[captain_to_fire]

When I first read "the iPhone 8 is the world's hottest phone", my first thought it would be some fiasco like the Snapdragon 810 or the Galaxy Note 7. 

 

13 minutes ago, DrMacintosh said:

The iPhone 8 had 2.4 percent of global sales, according to market-research firm Counterpoint. That was in May, the most recent month for which figures are available.

I think the reason why the iPhone 8 sells so well is the price. It is Apple's cheapest flagship phone ($700 for 64GB) and I bet that this year, the slightly cheaper 6.1" iPhone (rumored it won't have 3D touch and will use LCD) would also be a best seller.

[Guest]

8 minutes ago, pinksnowbirdie said:

I gotta admit, having an S8+ myself the iPhone 8 is very tempting.

My mom has one and it seems pretty nice, but man iOS has changed so much.

Somewhat not for the better. Looks like it’s trying to be an Android. Not much of the special Apple sauce left. 

[Bouzoo]

They say how iPhone 8 is the best selling phone, and then they give us this graph.

 

 

I can see that the Apple column is slightly higher, but this is one of the reasons why I'd like to have 2 decimal points in this kind of stats. This graph is absurd.

[NelizMastr]

2 minutes ago, DrMacintosh said:

Its only getting better with 12. The gap of differences is almost non-existing for the average user.

 

There are always going to be those people who like android because they would rather run MS-DOS on their phone than just click an icon that they can't customize the look of  

I personally think that those who want to customize each and every aspect of their phone spends entirely too much time on it. When you're done with all the school stuff and in an actual professional job, you hardly look at your phone unless you're just texting, calling or doing a quick lookup. All you need then is ergonomics and easily identifiable apps.

 

I traded a Moto G5 Plus for a well used iPhone 6 for that reason. iOS has always been easier for me to use in that regard. Plus, now I can say I carry two iPhones with me when I'm at work (for private matters, I have an iPhone 7).

[DrMacintosh]

1 minute ago, captain_to_fire said:

When I first read "the iPhone 8 is the world's hottest phone", my first thought it would be some fiasco like the Snapdragon 810 or the Galaxy Note 7. 

 

I think the reason why the iPhone 8 sells so well is the price. It is Apple's cheapest flagship phone ($700 for 64GB) and I bet that this year, the slightly cheaper 6.1" iPhone (rumored it won't have 3D touch and will use LCD) would also be a best seller.

 

While I would hate to see 3D Touch go, imo its such a staple of the iPhone now, I have to admit that iOS has the functionality to do all the same things with a tap and hold. With the iPhone X "Home bar" you no longer need to 3D Touch and swipe left either. 

 

We will just have to see how 3D Touch fairs in the next few years. 

[mr moose]

14 minutes ago, Dabombinable said:

Who here only remembers seeing HTC phones in the early days of Android?

Yes, Manny of the first smartphones to grace/lead our market where HTC. 

 

I'm predicting nokia will make a tremendous comeback. I am playing around with a nokia 3 and I have to admit i am very impressed for such a cheap phone.

[DrMacintosh]

3 minutes ago, Bouzoo said:

They say how iPhone 8 is the best selling phone, and then they give us this graph.

 

I can see that the Apple column is slightly higher, but this is one of the reasons why I'd like to have 2 decimal points in this kind of stats. 

Statistics is statisticky..........

 

DING

[handymanshandle]

1 minute ago, DrMacintosh said:

Its only getting better with 12. The gap of differences is almost non-existing for the average user.

 

There are always going to be those people who like android because they would rather run MS-DOS on their phone than just click an icon that they can't customize the look of  

lol

Well my thing is I still love Android, but I don't so much love the company behind it anymore.

I mean I really like my S8+ and I'd totally get another Android phone but between the company and the community of avid Android users I honestly just want to not have to deal with it anymore.

Say what you will about Apple, but there's somethings they do right.

 

I play too many games to buy an Apple desktop, I'd expect linux to get better game support than macOS would.

 

I will admit this I used to be an iSheep, it's hayday started almost 10 years ago but really took off 8 years ago and lasted to 2013, but I used to think the only OS worthwhile was Mac OS X and what have you, but now I've gotten way more agnostic to that stuff.

I could have a Mac laptop that has windows bootcamped, an android phone and a windows pc with a secondary drive dedicated to linux
Or an iPhone in lieu of the Android phone. I really don't care.

[captain_to_fire]

2 minutes ago, DrMacintosh said:

While I would hate to see 3D Touch go, imo its such a staple of the iPhone now, I have to admit that iOS has the functionality to do all the same things with a tap and hold. With the iPhone X "Home bar" you no longer need to 3D Touch and swipe left either. 

 

We will just have to see how 3D Touch fairs in the next few years. 

In order to make the rumored 6.1" iPhone cheaper, they have to cut corners and that might include 3D touch and OLED. I just don't know how much it costs Apple an individual taptic engine. The use of LCD instead of OLED is understandable since Apple doesn't make their own displays, they source them out from either Samsung or LG (rumored OLED supplier for the 2018 iPhone) and all they can do is fine tune the color calibration.

[DrMacintosh]

10 minutes ago, captain_to_fire said:

I just don't know how much it costs Apple an individual taptic engine.

It will still have a Taptic Engine, the only thing that makes 3D Touch 3D Touch is the pressure sensor in the display. Nothing else can make the haptic feedback that's in the iPhones now. 

(gotta promote my propaganda vids lol, for real tho I live for these videos every year they come out)

[Rain7]

21 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

when you say 'hottest', I'm like 'oh well it has one of the fastest mobile SoC atm and no heatsink, what would you expect?' until I read the content

Same impression I've had with the title until I saw the poster's name and was like "even if the iPhone 8 randomly gets engulfed in flames this'll still be something positive about apple".

[Trixanity]

44 minutes ago, NelizMastr said:

I personally think that those who want to customize each and every aspect of their phone spends entirely too much time on it. When you're done with all the school stuff and in an actual professional job, you hardly look at your phone unless you're just texting, calling or doing a quick lookup. All you need then is ergonomics and easily identifiable apps.

 

I traded a Moto G5 Plus for a well used iPhone 6 for that reason. iOS has always been easier for me to use in that regard. Plus, now I can say I carry two iPhones with me when I'm at work (for private matters, I have an iPhone 7).

Customization is optional. Just because you can doesn't mean you must. Not giving you an option is the real problem.

 

If you really want to claim you use everything as is and adjusting things is for kids then I find the notion silly. People adjust even the most mundane things to get the most out of every item even if it's just a chair. But if you really don't want to adjust your work chair such as height of the seat and armrests and angle of the backrest because it's not very professional then that's very interesting.

[mr moose]

45 minutes ago, Trixanity said:

I People adjust even the most mundane things to get the most out of every item

I adjust my testicles at least 2 - 3 times a day for maximum comfort.

 

[Shadestones]

I want one for my new phone, but my budget says "iPhone SE or bust"

[Mooshi]

So when is Apple gonna have a real screen res on the non plus models?