Apple: 7 of the 10 best-selling smartphones in 2023 were iPhones

Apple imposes itself without difficulty; in the top best-selling smartphones in 2023, especially at the high end.

Who can stop the Apple machine from dominating the market? of  smartphones ? The company  agrave the apple seems almost untouchable if we rely on the latest studies of the best-selling devices during the year 2023. The latest in date comes from the Counterpoint Research institute whose site and members are specialized in the analysis of tech markets such as smartphones and connected objects .

Their latest study presents the top 10 best-selling smartphones in the world during the year 2023. The result is ;ambiguous: for the first time in its history, Apple is including 7 different iPhone models ranging from the iPhone 13 to 2019. iPhone 15 Pro Max.

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The rest of the smartphones à to appear in the ranking all belong to à a competing brand: Samsung. There we find the Galaxy A14 5G, the A04e and the A14 4G.

Apple establishes itself on high-end smartphones

The common point between all these Samsung smartphones ? These are only entry-level products. Their prices therefore vary between 100 and 249 euros for the most advanced version of the Galaxy A14 5G when it is released.

Conversely, the least expensive iPhone in the list of the 10 best-selling smartphones of 2023 is the iPhone 13.& nbsp;Even today, the latter is traded around 600-700 euros which is a hell of a lot. égap with Samsung products.

This classification tends à prove a little more that consumers tend à turn to the iPhone when they have a sufficient budget. However, we will notice the strange absence of brands specializing in "low cost" like Xiaomi who often offer excellent quality-price ratios in this segment. The Counterpoint site states, however, that the arrival of Chinese brands in this ranking would not be surprising in 2024.