Huawei says that he is overtaking Apple in smartphone sales from here 2019

Having retained second place in the global smartphone market for years, Apple could have a worthy challenger. At a product launch this week, Huawei division director Richard Yu Chengdong announced that the Chinese smartphone maker would be able to ship 200 million smartphones by the end of 2018 , which would put him in second place. To put this number in perspective, South China Morning Post reports that Huawei shipped 153.1 million handsets in 2017. That was not enough to exceed 215.8 million. Apple's shipments, but if Huawei can reach 200 million sales just a year later, it goes without saying that Apple could be in third place by the end of 2019.

"Previously [we] reached the 100 million mark on December 22, 2015, October 14, 2016, and September 12, 2017, "said Richard Yu Chengdong. "As it only took a little over six months to reach the goal this year, we now expect deliveries of 200 million units by the end of this year. 2018. "

Although this is the first time Huawei, the Chinese brand beat Apple in the second quarter of 2017. Of course, it was before the revelation of the iPhone X and the iPhone 8 , which means that many Apple fans were waiting to see what the next generation of iPhones would look like.

Nevertheless, it's an impressive achievement from Huawei, who will overtake Apple as the second-largest brand on the planet. Apple will continue to make profits like no other handset maker, but maybe this will ignite a fire under Apple to bring more to the table than facial recognition and an unsightly hack.