Huawei Overtakes Apple to Become Second Biggest Smartphone Maker
- Apple’s struggle in China allows Huawei to jump ahead
- Overall smartphone shipments slide for 6th straight quarter
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Huawei Technologies Co. overtook Apple Inc. to claim the No. 2 spot in smartphones in the first quarter, moving a step closer to its avowed ambition of displacing Samsung at the top of the market.
The networking giant, shrugging off a barrage of accusations that it aids Chinese espionage (which it’s repeatedly denied), grew shipments 50 percent from a year earlier, research firm IDC estimates. It was the only name in the top 4 that managed to expand volumes as the overall market slid for the sixth consecutive quarter.