GCC Smartphone Marketplace Suffers Sharp 12 months-on-Year Drop, with Restoration Not likely Ahead of 2024

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GCC Smartphone Marketplace Suffers Sharp 12 months-on-Year Drop, with Restoration Not likely Ahead of 2024

GCC Smartphone Marketplace Suffers Sharp 12 months-on-Year Drop, with Restoration Not likely Ahead of 2024

Dubai – Freshly unveiled facts from IDC’s Globally Quarterly Mobile Mobile phone Tracker shows that shipments of smartphones to the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region declined 7.8% yr on yr in Q1 2023, with modest advancement of .8% on the former quarter.

Saudi Arabia is the largest smartphone marketplace in the GCC, adopted by the UAE. The two markets posted yearly declines as vendors and channels prioritized shipments of larger-stop gadgets at reduced portions, with shipments of low-finish and midrange equipment envisioned to follow in the second quarter of the yr. Normal marketing costs (ASPs) saw a noteworthy annually and quarterly increase throughout all the GCC nations owing to improved inventory of quality devices.

Samsung leads the GCC’s overall smartphone market in shipment conditions, followed by Apple in 2nd put and Xiaomi in third. “Apple and Samsung substantially ramped up their shipments of quality products in Q1 2023,” says Akash Balachandran, a investigation supervisor at IDC. “This development can be attributed to exceptional client need for Apple’s Pro and Pro Max series of products, when Samsung’s S-collection also done effectively next a productive start and tie-ups with telecom channels.”

“The smartphone markets of the GCC are most likely to remain strained during 2023 as inflation drives people to prioritize their paying on essentials,” says Ramazan Yavuz, a senior exploration manager at IDC. “The uncertainty is not likely to relieve before the start out of 2024 and the recovery interval appears to be like like it will get longer than formerly envisioned.”

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