Eight Of the World's Top 12 Smartphone Vendors Are Based In China (digidip.net) 59
An anonymous reader writes: How serious and dangerous is China's offensive on Korean and Western mobile hardware brands? Extremely, according to research conducted between January and March by IC Insights, which predictably positioned Samsung and Apple atop the smartphone manufacturer hierarchy, only followed by a flurry of handheld vendors based in the Middle Kingdom. In fact, eight of the ten vendors that followed the two giants are Chinese. These OEMs are, in order of their market capture, Huawei, Oppo, Xiaomi, Vivo, ZTE, Lenovo, TCL, and Meizu.
The other 4 (Score:5, Insightful)
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Well, they really just assemble them there. China's share of the value-add of an iPhone is tiny (single-digit percentage of the manufacturing cost of the phone, even smaller percentage of the wholesale price).
Re:The other 4 (Score:4, Informative)
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It includes all the bribes you have to pay for dumping of toxic waste into streams and rivers which is created during the manufacturing process. The bribes are much cheaper in China.
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It includes all the bribes you have to pay for dumping of toxic waste into streams and rivers which is created during the manufacturing process.
Manufacturing smartphones creates a negligible amount of toxic waste. Even the solder is lead free.
One of the biggest benefits of manufacturing in China is the supply chain. If you run run low on #000 screws, instead of stopping the assembly line, you just tell Qiang to hop on his bicycle and pedal over to the screw factory. He will be back in 30 minutes.
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Sure, right.
As long as you don't look at anything beyond final assembly, you're completely correct.
But the fabs that the chips are made in, the facilities where the LCD displays are made, all the way down to the mining of the ores used for the metal components... It's understandable that you brush that part off.
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http://money.cnn.com/2013/08/2... [cnn.com]
It is $4 from an actual assembly plant that ran in the US for a little while.
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Their share of of the iPhone ticket price might be tiny. However the knowledge they get from building it has been priceless. You think all these other chinese manufacturers got up to speed this quickly on their own? Who needs industrial espionage when the stupid westerners hand you the designs and get you to build all their hi-tech electronics for them!
How many western companies would dream of building all their kit in Russia? Quite. Yet for some reason China is ok! Go figure.
Apple isn't really a US vendor (Score:2, Insightful)
The money doesn't stay the US so it should be accurately relabeled as "China / Ireland".
Lenovo (Score:2, Interesting)
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Oppo phones are excellent. The R9 is a serious contended for Samsung Galaxy S series quality and build. And Huawei make more than a Nexus handset. Look at their range in the middle and low price brackets. Their low end phones look and feel like mid range Samsung phones. And ZTE? They're essentially unchallenged in the "bar of soap wifi hotspot" market.
Dismiss the Chinese at your peril.
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And the rest largely only manufacture domestically and/or produce junk phones.
Your attitude is both complacent and wrong. I have a Xiaomi phone, and the build quality is superb. These companies have a huge domestic market, but they are also selling well in SE Asia, Africa, and India. That is most of the world's population, and where most future growth will be.
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Your attitude is both complacent and wrong. I have a Xiaomi phone, and the build quality is superb. These companies have a huge domestic market, but they are also selling well in SE Asia, Africa, and India. That is most of the world's population, and where most future growth will be.
Those markets are still a very very long way from being anything more than low margin markets, hence junk phones. In the higher margin markets (NA / EU) the smartphone market would need a very large revolutionary change to unseat the incumbents (much like the iphone launch did to Nokia, Palm & Blackberry).
so is Apple (Score:1)
http://mashable.com/2012/02/22/foxconn/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3582640/Open-sewers-mildewed-walls-one-toilet-FORTY-people-Shocking-pictures-dirty-dormitories-Apple-s-iPhone-workers-live-like-animals.html
Not so nice being a faggot is it?
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Coal? So hydro, nuclear, wind and solar don't exist?
Come to eastern Canada and ask people about coal being needed to produce electricity. They'll look at you like you're from the 1800's.
I, for one, welcome my OLD BURNER OVERLORD (Score:1)
Fuck these things! I don't need you recording what I say to shoot ads at my facebook account. I don't need your Uber, your Tinder, your Grind'r, your cat selfie filter. I DO NOT NEED THEM.
What I need is a phone that makes calls and MAYBE, the odd SMS. And you almost cannot buy that anymore, by virtue of being upsold this crap that you don't want anyway!
Am I alone?
Re:I, for one, welcome my OLD BURNER OVERLORD (Score:4, Informative)
What I need is a phone that makes calls and MAYBE, the odd SMS. And you almost cannot buy that anymore
Yes you can. There are many, many dumb phones available. You can buy one from Amazon for less than $20, including shipping. You can buy one off the shelf at Walmart.
Am I alone?
No, many people whine about non-existent problems. You are not alone.
Evil dirty foreigners (Score:2)
Why do we even buy products from evil dirty foreigners? The Chinese are probably secret muslamic terrorists. We should build a wall around them and make Kim Jong-Un pay for it.
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Donald J. Trump, is that you?
Way? Huawei (Score:2)
Huawei. I bought my kid one of these recently and he loves it. (Well, actually he loves it as much as he loves a free phone from a Dad too cheap to buy a kid an Apple or name-brand Android product)
>> These OEMs are, in order of their market capture
FWIW, the phrase you wanted to use was "market share"
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When the US stops bombing countries on flimsy pretexts, stops biting chunks off its citizens' rights, stops using its covert services to interfere with the politics of other sovereign nations, THEN you can come and pontificate about China being a menace. Until then, however, if you want to see the biggest global menace, look no further than Washington DC.
don't forget knock-offs (Score:2)
China is the leading supplier of knock-off, or fake phones too. [androidpit.com]
I have been impressed with my BLU phone... (Score:2)
I know that they aren't on the top list, but they make some good unlocked phones that are a fraction of the price of the big names. I will definitely buy from them again.
So? (Score:2)
How many vendors are there? (Score:2)
If position 12 has 14.4M and Other has 340M, that means there's at least 24 other vendors.