Counterpoint: Apple dominates top-ten best selling smartphones list for 2022
2022 was a great year for Apple and its iPhone lineup as per the latest Counterpoint Research report which outlines the top ten best-selling phones of last year. Eight of the top ten devices came from Appleâs camp with the iPhone 13 garnering the top spot with an estimated 5% of total smartphone sales around the globe and 28% of all iPhone sales. The vanilla 13 was the best-selling phone in the US, UK, China, Germany and France between September 2021 and August 2022.
The iPhone 13 Pro Max came in at second place with a 2.8% share of all global smartphone sales followed by its successor â the iPhone 14 Pro Max which captured 1.7% of all sales. The 14 Pro Max is also the first time a Pro Max iPhone outsells the regular-sized Pro and vanilla counterparts.
Samsungâs Galaxy A13 was the fourth best-selling phone in 2022 followed by the iPhone 13 Pro to round off the top-five list. The iPhone 12 which launched back in October of 2020 was the sixth best-selling phone of 2022 followed by the iPhone 14 with an estimated 1.5% of all sales. Despite its age, the vanilla 12 model remained widely popular across the US, China and Japan. The iPhone SE (2022) came in ninth place while Samsungâs Galaxy A03 rounds off the top-ten list.