Samsung's global market share estimated to fall in 2018 for the first time ever (not including 2016)

This is exactly right! I knew this was coming for once great but now lazy manufactures like Samsung. Just like HTC, Samsung will also go down the hill once it lost it's mojo and momentum. When people hear more and more about Huawei, Apple, Oppo, Xiaomi, Oneplus they certainly will forget about Samsung sooner or later. Also because there are very good low budget smartphones these days the life cycle of a smartphone has also increased, now people change their phone once in every 3 years or so because every phone now a days is very capable and software also getting better. When that differentiating factor is getting blurry and blurry flagship Android market is shrinking rapidly.

Make some valid points but including Apple with the others you mention will bring down a crap storm. If techie was still around he would write many essays with his data and stats.

You are absolutely delusional if you think people will forget about Samsung because of Huawei, OnePlus etc... Samsung is not going anywhere.

I think you have been quite mentioning that Samsung is unable to win Apple in flagships, and if you check the shipments than I think mid to low range market belongs to Samsung, and if Samsung is only losing in China then think twice, no one is winning in China as well, except for their local brands. There are other markets as well, where Samsung is still going strong, middle east, europe, africa, india have some population still, where people prefer Samsung over other brands. The whole world does not live in USA & China only. In my country mostly people are holding on to mid and low end Samsung phones, tonnes of them, and our population is 210 millions.

... I DON'T SEE THAT HAPPENING SOON. BUT SINCERELY, SAMSUNG MAY NEED TO COOK OUT A PLAN TO FIGHT HUAWEI, XIAOMI, OPPO, VIVO AND OTHERS. PRICES ESPECIALLY AND SOFTWARE UPDATES...

Samsung is being sandwiched from all sides, in the low end they are being destroyed by the rising Chinese OEM's and on the highend they are being wrecked by the mid range Android phones that offer far more value for money. And of course Apple is dominating the premium segment. Samsung is stuck in a bad place at the moment, they are desperate for the profit margins Apple earns on its devices but they face stiff competition that under cuts them. Not to mention Samsung has to spend more on marketing and get the big stars in its commercials to keep the brand image that they have built up over the years, that's why they can't price their flagships more competitively. Phones these days don't really add anything exciting anymore, a reduction in bezel size is pretty much all that's happened in the last few years that's worth being excited over. The main parts of a phone like Screen, Camera, Processors, Metal build, battery life etc have all reached point where yearly upgrades, while always good to get don't really add much to excite anyone. It's an interesting time, Google should really take advantage of the rising upper low end and mid range segment and release rock soild 500 dollar pure Google flagships. The highend is no longer viable, just ask Amazon and Essential. I feel like Google is up to something with its Andromeda OS, in the next few years they are going to cut the OEM's off and become a fully inhouse manufacturer. They pretty much used e everyone to build out their eco system and they have the power to ripp it away. Just gotta get all the hardware defects and sales experience right. At least Samsung has its stellar component sales to fall back on.

Samsung will have themselves to blame if this happens,by copying the pricIng of there phones same as Apple,they might be the leaders in creating phones,but they are now over pricing there phones they produce,copying Apple might back-fire on Samsung

Samsung will never be as great and big as Nokia was at its peak, now it’s Samsung’s time to go downhill

One of the main reason for Samsung fall if that’s happen that Apple and Google investing on LG OLED screen technology Apple with 2.7 billion $ and Google with 880 million $ Apple and Google going to have there own OLED panels and no more Samsung Super Amoled panels.

Get me into a Note 9.

Samsung products are competitive, where they fall behind is customer service to me. Especially their own samsung financing. That and software, the fact that my gear s3 still has both blueborne and krack vulnerability is a pretty big let down. Atleast the phones are not laggy as they used to be. Would like to see samsung improve in these two ways.

A mid range Samsung is not any better than an old iPhone like 5s or 6. My iPhone 5s is working faster than most entry level or mid range Samsung phones and now it costs less than 300 US dollars. Moreover, even old iPhones are still premium devices... at 300 dollars or less you normally get plastic android phones that will break with the first drop. To me, seeing how well the iPhone 5s works after over 4 years of heavy use, it wouldn't make sense to upgrade to anything else than an iPhone.

If u ever think Samsung sales will fall that is a big lie. Samsung will continue to dominate

I think Samsung will decline over time. They still might be the no:1 brand in total sales. But the Chinese competition especially in mid range devices will affect them. And 2018 will be the "real" Nokia comeback. Now they got the sales channels, carrier support in many parts of the world that they have building up in 2017. So it will be very interesting to se how it goes.