Samsung needs to be careful!

At the tip of the primary quarter of 2012, Samsung ended Nokia’s 14-year reign because the primary phone manufacturer. It has been over 9 years now and Samsung continues to be sitting comfortably at the highest. Nevertheless, in keeping with latest sales data, Samsung should exercise some caution, otherwise it could lose the crown.

In response to the newest data from market research firm Canalys for the second quarter of 2021, Samsung maintains the primary position with a market share of 19% with a growth of 15% year-on-year, which implies that the corporate’s overall smartphone business is healthier than last 12 months.

Their Galaxy A and M series sold rather well, and the Galaxy S21 line sold higher than the S20 series. Second place now not belongs to Apple. Second place goes to Xiaomi, which has captured 17% of the worldwide smartphone market, just 2% lower than Samsung. Xiaomi also achieved the very best growth (85% y/y), which is worrying within the context of Samsung’s dominance, because if Xiaomi continues to attain such numbers, who knows, perhaps inside a 12 months they’ll find a way to overtake Samsung and turn out to be the most important smartphone manufacturer.

The explanation why Xiaomi is seeing this growth is since it sells low-cost Redmi phones in markets like Africa, Latin America and Western Europe. In comparison with Samsung, Xiaomi phones are on average 40% cheaper, while in comparison with Apple they’re about 75% cheaper. And whenever you take all this under consideration, Xiaomi’s development doesn’t sound really impressive. Still, displacing Samsung from the primary position it has held for over 9 years can be a monumental feat for Xiaomi.

Apple is threatening to go away the UK market altogether, here’s why. You see, Optis wireless technology is an organization that holds several patents related to 3G and 4G LTE technologies. They asked Apple in court to pay a $7 billion licensing fee for using their technology of their products. Apple refused, claiming that these were patents mandatory to fulfill the standards and that Optis was a patent troll. A “patent troll” is one who buys patents literally to sue someone. They do not actually use this technology, they simply cling to it to idiot everyone.

So this company, Optis, bought these patents from one other company, and when it discovered that Apple had infringed a few of its 3G and 4G patents, it sued them in a British court and demanded a payment of $7 billion. A High Court judge has ruled that Apple infringed two Optis patents that help iPhones hook up with 3G and 4G networks. In 2022, Apple will face a trial that may determine how much it is going to must pay Optis for violating its patents. Nevertheless, the judge said throughout the hearing that Apple could also be disenchanted with the speed set by the court. In response, Apple’s lawyers said that the terms set by the court were simply commercially unacceptable and that in the event that they were forced to pay this money there can be no point in them continuing to operate within the UK and that they might stop selling iPhones within the UK Britain overall.

I’m not an Apple fan, but I fully support it here because patent trolls harm innovation not only in technology but in all sectors. You see, the more research and development an organization does, the more likely it’s to be sued for patent infringement by these trolls. This costs innovators money; this significantly affects their businesses, to which they respond by investing less in research and development. So it is time for the federal government to do something about these patent trolls.