Sales and market shares may seem like bullshit, and when push comes to shove it might be, but we like to know as directly as possible how the market is doing. Although in reality the most obvious way is to go out, get on the subway and observe the devices that people use, although this can give you a biased view of reality, for example, in Spain you will find "very few" iPhone, while that in Switzerland they will be the majority. We are already handling the data issued during the first fiscal quarter of 2017 about the units shipped by the manufacturers, And this is the result.
The data issued by Gartner make things clear, something that those of you who read me out of here will have seen me repeat on more than one occasion, we are facing the decline of the high-end Android, that is why Samsung has suffered the most important drop in the list, almost three points. However, due to its significant margin, it continues to be the leader in a sector that it knows well how to dominate, and that is that Samsung has phones of all ranges, even if they do not present a good value for money in the lower ranges, the Samsung logo weighs a lot.
On the other hand, the other fiasco represents him Apple, a drop of just over a point Compared to last year, despite everything, it has still shipped about 300.000 more devices than in 2016, against Samsung has shipped around three million fewer units. Here the merit today I want to give it to Huawei, the Chinese firm continues to work in a spectacular way and has been represented in its rise of 0,3 points, ranking just behind Apple with 9% of shipments made in the first quarter.
Special mention of the Chinese market, Oppo and Vivo maintain a brutal growth that in the case of the first one almost reaches three points, to which we are not going to give too much prominence, because today they are here, and tomorrow we do not know.