The world if flat….
The sky is falling…. Politicians don’t lie…. Apple’s iPhone X is a dud…. Over and over and over this is the press, no matter the product, no matter the season, no matter the year…Michael Dell told Apple to sell the company and distribute the proceeds to the stockholders…so it goes… The Apple machine continues to roll for another day. John What sales slump? The iPhone X was the world's best-selling smartphone in Q1 Despite analyst predictions, the iPhone X nabs the smartphone sales crown, shipping 16 million units. Steven Musil <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.cnet.com_profiles_stevenmusil_&d=DwIFaQ&c=OAG1LQNACBDguGvBeNj18Swhr9TMTjS-x4O_KuapPgY&r=F2GFXrjLFqVo3VwvIlo_XYeEiRRjHv15rxcenz7A21woG2aFGcrzndoSsskxfmOs&m=IC0uVhGd3pBGbY62RuVXzHoxmwVum08q4tAHSfQIOBo&s=Rjn2NowZmotopqfDVBuLQ0i-J070KR89g5mgws74igY&e=>May 3, 2018 3:58 PM PDT Your global smartphone sales champion. Sarah Tew/CNET The iPhone X <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.cnet.com_products_apple-2Diphone-2Dx_review_&d=DwIFaQ&c=OAG1LQNACBDguGvBeNj18Swhr9TMTjS-x4O_KuapPgY&r=F2GFXrjLFqVo3VwvIlo_XYeEiRRjHv15rxcenz7A21woG2aFGcrzndoSsskxfmOs&m=IC0uVhGd3pBGbY62RuVXzHoxmwVum08q4tAHSfQIOBo&s=tpzW8bFuvwEyZ8yeNy6FOMioDY6uWh9OokDHbQi5FBg&e=> was the best-selling smartphone in the world during the first quarter of 2018, contradicting analysts' soft sales predictions. Apple's flagship handset shipped 16 million units during the first three months of the year, according to figures released Thursday by market researcher Strategy Analytics. Apple also nabbed the next two spots on the list with the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus, which sold 12.5 million units and 8.3 million units, respectively. Fears that Apple would report dismal iPhone sales <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.cnet.com_news_for-2Dapple-2Diphone-2Dx-2Dis-2Dit-2Dtime-2Dfor-2Dfull-2Dpanic-2Dmode-2Dwith-2Dsecond-2Dquarter-2Dfinancial-2Dresults_&d=DwIFaQ&c=OAG1LQNACBDguGvBeNj18Swhr9TMTjS-x4O_KuapPgY&r=F2GFXrjLFqVo3VwvIlo_XYeEiRRjHv15rxcenz7A21woG2aFGcrzndoSsskxfmOs&m=IC0uVhGd3pBGbY62RuVXzHoxmwVum08q4tAHSfQIOBo&s=oKcxzmLEfGROnNMI9Im2AoUegIyWcX5eDgGsxLte7o0&e=> were allayed when the company reported Tuesday that iPhone unit sales rose 2.9 percent year over year in the second quarter. CEO Tim Cook <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.cnet.com_tags_tim-2Dcook_&d=DwIFaQ&c=OAG1LQNACBDguGvBeNj18Swhr9TMTjS-x4O_KuapPgY&r=F2GFXrjLFqVo3VwvIlo_XYeEiRRjHv15rxcenz7A21woG2aFGcrzndoSsskxfmOs&m=IC0uVhGd3pBGbY62RuVXzHoxmwVum08q4tAHSfQIOBo&s=zc9Lgk_RZ4eY_h9Mwims-x24FskknkBCNDATKLeI6SU&e=> said the iPhone X was the top-selling Apple device every week <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.cnet.com_news_apple-2Dsecond-2Dquarter-2Dearnings-2Drevenue-2Dguidance-2Dare-2Dbetter-2Dthan-2Dexpected-2Dbut-2Diphone-2Dsales-2Ddont-2Dsoar_&d=DwIFaQ&c=OAG1LQNACBDguGvBeNj18Swhr9TMTjS-x4O_KuapPgY&r=F2GFXrjLFqVo3VwvIlo_XYeEiRRjHv15rxcenz7A21woG2aFGcrzndoSsskxfmOs&m=IC0uVhGd3pBGbY62RuVXzHoxmwVum08q4tAHSfQIOBo&s=i3Jm4p9FMWbnX-o09iatr9V3wn8T8i1Isferb3y3wKI&e=> of the quarter. "For the second quarter running, the iPhone X remains the world's most popular smartphone model overall, due to a blend of good design, sophisticated camera, extensive apps, and widespread retail presence for the device," Juha Winter, senior analyst at Strategy Analytics, said in a statement. "Apple has now shipped almost 50 million iPhone X units worldwide since commercial launch in November 2017." In the weeks leading up to Apple's results, analyst after analyst cut earnings estimates and warned the iPhone boom times could be over. They based their fears on results from Apple's component suppliers, including Samsung <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.cnet.com_news_samsung-2Dq1-2D2018-2Dearnings-2Drevenue-2Dsoar-2Don-2Dmemory-2Dchip-2Ddemand-2Dbut-2Dmobile-2Dwill-2Dstruggle_&d=DwIFaQ&c=OAG1LQNACBDguGvBeNj18Swhr9TMTjS-x4O_KuapPgY&r=F2GFXrjLFqVo3VwvIlo_XYeEiRRjHv15rxcenz7A21woG2aFGcrzndoSsskxfmOs&m=IC0uVhGd3pBGbY62RuVXzHoxmwVum08q4tAHSfQIOBo&s=AhQm_vkffb16JeIXbhqZ8cnwZPrLr4WQRyOd1Fc6QMQ&e=>, almost universally warned about weakness in the mobile market. The Xiaomi Redmi 5A and Samsung Galaxy S9 Plus <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.cnet.com_products_samsung-2Dgalaxy-2Ds9-2Dplus_review_&d=DwIFaQ&c=OAG1LQNACBDguGvBeNj18Swhr9TMTjS-x4O_KuapPgY&r=F2GFXrjLFqVo3VwvIlo_XYeEiRRjHv15rxcenz7A21woG2aFGcrzndoSsskxfmOs&m=IC0uVhGd3pBGbY62RuVXzHoxmwVum08q4tAHSfQIOBo&s=p1ZcY5QkqDqEA9ewggUS8I0owplIc4PyjJtGStRKKAo&e=> were the world's top-selling Android smartphones, shipping 5.4 million and 5.3 million units, respectively.
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