smartphone manufacturers can be truly content with their Q2 2023 shipment figures and market share stateside. Not in a quarter when overall regional sales were down a massive 24 percent from Q2 2022, and not right after two other three-month periods of year-on-year regression.and TCL must be exceptionally unhappy with their huge 37 and 69 percent declines respectively compared to the April - June timeframe of last year.
After a seemingly very strong start at the local box-office that boosted its maker's slice of the US sales pie from 20 percent in Q4 2022 to 27 percent in Q1 2023, the high-end Galaxy S23 series clearly fizzled, contributing to a worrying market share decrease to 23 percent for the world's top handset vendor.