華爲銷售額首超蘋果，成全球第二大手機供應商！

Just when everybody was feeling good about Apple's stellar earnings announcement this afternoon, IDC has thrown cold water on the party.

今天下午，正當所有人都覺得蘋果公司亮眼的收益報告還不錯的時候，IDC公司（國際數據資訊公司）就跳出來潑冷水了。

The research firm actually brought a one-two punch of bad news (if you're rooting for Apple), saying that Apple has fallen behind China’s Huawei in smartphone unit sales and that the overall global smartphone market declined 1.8% in the second calendar quarter of 2018.

實際上該研究公司帶來了連番的壞消息（如果你傾向於支持蘋果公司），它表示蘋果公司在智能手機銷售上已落後於中國的華爲公司，而且全球智能手機市場在2018年第二季度的銷售額總體下降了1.8%。

Apple falls into the No. 3 spot, with Huawei at No. 2 and Samsung holding fast to No. 1.

蘋果公司的銷售額降至第三位，華爲公司排名第二，三星公司依然堅守着第一。

IDC says smartphone vendors shipped a total of 342 million devices during Q2 2018, compared with the 348.2 million units shipped in the second quarter of 2017.

IDC公司表示智能手機供應商2018年第二季度的出貨量爲3.42億部手機，而2017年第二季度則賣出了3.482億部手機。

Apple reported slightly lower than expected iPhone sales of 41.3 million units in its quarterly earnings report earlier today.

據報道，蘋果公司今天早些時候公佈的季度收益報告顯示，蘋果手機的銷售量略低於預期中的4130萬部。

IDC attributes the decline to “churn in some highly penetrated markets.”

IDC公司把這種衰退歸因於“部分高度滲透市場的動盪”。

“Many high growth markets still exist and should return smartphone shipments to overall growth,”IDC says in a statement，however.

然而，IDC公司在一份聲明中表示，“因爲許多高速增長的市場依然存在，所以智能手機市場的出貨量總體上應該會呈上漲趨勢”。

The number of units shipped is important, the profit that devices bring in is more so. And in the smartphone business, Apple always wins that race by a mile.

出貨量很重要，銷售設備所帶來的利潤更重要。在智能手機業務上，蘋果公司始終佔據上風。

It is reported that while Apple accounted for only 18% of smartphone unit sales in the final quarter of 2017, it took home 87% of the profits made in the sector.

據報道，雖然在2017年最後一季度蘋果公司在智能手機銷售量上只佔據了18%的份額，但該公司卻把該行業87%的利潤納入囊中。

（翻譯：Dlacus）