How Nokia has been dropped by Samsung and Apple, the answer will be in a GIF image

The phone market is one of the most volatile markets in the world. After only a few years, the current dominant throne may disappear.

In only about 26 years (from 1993 until now), the market leader position has changed through many different companies.

The Next Web page has created an animation to simulate the rapid turnaround process among the 'big guys' in the mobile phone market in the past 24 years (from 1993 to 2017). Through the animation of The Next Web, the global mobile phone market is like the sea surface with every new company like the new waves that bury the old waves, the ones that go ahead.

Initially, the top of the phone market belonged to Motorola, which made the first mobile phone. But in just a not so long time, Nokia, the king of feature phones rose to dominate this position. When Apple's iPhone appeared, though it had never been at the top of the global sales, it was like a whirlwind of Nokia or BlackBerry, phone companies didn't catch up with smartphone trends. Samsung, by making good use of smartphones, has risen to the top of the world, becoming a formidable rival of Apple.

However, when brands like Xiaomi, Huawei, Vivo, Oppo, Chinese smartphone manufacturers started to rise, Samsung's top spot was often threatened in every segment from low-end to high-end.