Vietnam sees robust iPhone 13 demand Friday, November 5, 2021 3:28 pm
According to reports by Vietnam Express and Vietnamnet, channel retailers in Vietnam have seen stronger-than-expected sales for Apple’s new iPhone 13 lineup and expect demand to outstrip supply for the foreseeable future.
Alex Chen and Joseph Tsai for DigiTimes:
FPT Shop, a local retail chain in Vietnam, sold a total of nearly 5,000 iPhone 13 smartphones on the first day of the release, generating sales of nearly VND200 billion (US$8.79 million), the highest opening sales for iPhones at the retail chain. It sold 4,500 iPhone 12 smartphones on the first day in 2020.
Another Vietnam-based retailer CellphoneS sold nearly 3,000 iPhone 13 smartphones on the first day, soaring from iPhone 12’s 1,000 units in 2020.
Sources from Vietnam’s smartphone retail channel pointed out that many consumers in Vietnam have purchased their iPhone 13 from local licensed stores instead of shops that parallel import iPhones from other countries due to Apple’s subsidies to consumers and local retailers.
MacDailyNews Take: Via Apple Vietnam, iPhone sales locations in the country can be found here.
Apple Mac takes 24% share of U.S. laptop market Monday, November 8, 2021 2:08 pm
With MacBooks accounting for nearly 1 in 4 laptops sold in America, Apple is the third most-owned brand with 24% U.S. market share as of October 2021, according to Statista data. HP and Dell, makers of cheap Windows and Chrome OS PC laptops have 35% and 27% shares of the U.S. laptop market, respectively.
Justinas Baltrusaitis for Finbold:
Acer has a share of 13% to rank fourth, followed by Lenovo at 12%. Samsung has the lowest market share at 7%. The data on U.S. laptop market share is based on Statista Global Consumer Survey conducted between Jul 2020-Sep 2021 which surveyed 4,792 U.S. respondents aged between 18-64 years. Laptops ownership is on a household level.
Apple is considered to have the best customer service of any laptop brand, and their laptops typically give a great user experience. The user experience has remained Apple’s main selling point, with other competitors attempting to replicate it. For example, consumers who already own other Apple hardware can start operating the MAC seamlessly from the point of purchase.
MacDailyNews Take: Watch out, Dell, real notebook computers that vastly outperform anything Dell can offer, are about to zoom on by – powered by the superior Macintosh operating system and Apple Silicon!
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