By Adrian Kingsley-Hughes for Hardware 2. Best Phones for Read More. It’s funny how quickly things can change. Three pnone ago it seemed like Apple was on track to grab monney global smartphone market share crown from Samsung, only to be shoved into third place by Chinese maker Huawei. Must read: The stupid reason Apple is using to try to stop you from fixing your own iPhone. Here’s a chart that tracks the fight between Apple, Samsung, and Huawei over the past five quarters courtesy of Bloombergbased on IDC data :. Well, on a totally business front, market share and revenue and profits are two separate things, and it might be foolish to focus too heavily on market share. Look at foes dollars and cents, if we take the last quarter revenues and profits, it’s clear that market share isn’t .