Smartphone sales have tanked, and Huawei is taking the biggest hit
Smartphone sales declined by 20.2% in the first quarter of 2020 as a result of impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Gartner.Not only is Huawei grappling with the impacts of the coronavirus along with the rest of the industry, but it's also at a disadvantage because it cannot use Google's software and app store.
The results come after the smartphone industry has been struggling in recent years as consumers are finding high-end phones less appealing. It's shaping up to be a rough year for the smartphone market so far. Lockdown orders and the economic fallout from the coronavirus have made it challenging for consumers to spend on nonessential products like smartphones, sending sales plummeting, according toSmartphone sales declined by 20.2% in the first quarter of 2020, with all of the top five smartphone makers seeing sales drop except for Chinese smartphone giant Xiaomi. Huawei took the biggest hit of all, with market growth plummeting by 27.3% year-over-year. Samsung's market growth dropped by 22.7%, comparatively, while Apple's dropped by 8.2%. in late April, saying that the smartphone market suffered its biggest year-over-year decline in the first quarter of 2020 because of the coronavirus. Even though Huawei saw the biggest drop, it still held its number two spot in the global smartphone market, outpacing Apple, Xiaomi, and Oppo, playing second to only Samsung. Huawei is at a particular disadvantage because it can no longer use Google's version of Android and its family of popular apps, like Gmail and Google Maps, since Google is barred from doing business with the Chinese tech giant. President Trump signed an executive order last May barring American companies like Google from doing business with Huawei over national security concerns. That order was
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