The iPhone is still breaking sales records during the pandemic

[Jacob Siegal]

• Apple broke a quarterly record for US iPhone shipments in Q2 2020 despite the effects of the novel coronavirus pandemic on the global and domestic economies.
• In the second quarter of 2020, Apple shipped 15 million iPhones, according to Canalys.
• Apple now has a massive 47.1% market share in the US, up from 40.8% last year.

The novel coronavirus pandemic has had far-reaching effects on the global economy and triggered a recession in the United States, but you wouldn't know it looking at Apple. This week, market research firm Canalys shared its second-quarter estimates for US smartphone shipments, and while shipments declined overall, Apple managed to hit a new domestic record with 15 million iPhone shipments over the three-month period.

According to Canalys, Apple's US market share rose to 47% on the strength of the iPhone 11, up more than 6% from the same quarter in 2019. Meanwhile, Samsung inched from 22.3% to 23.2% in the same timespan, while LG, TCL, and other brands all saw their share fall year-over-year by multiple percentage points.

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