AppleApple overtakes Samsung as world’s top smartphone selleriPhone maker ends South Korean rival’s 12-year lead, as Xiaomi, Honor and Google divide Android market
Apple has overtaken Samsung as the world’s top smartphone seller, ending the Korean tech firm’s 12-year run as industry leader.
The iPhone took the top spot in 2023 with 234.6m units sold, according to figures from the International Data Corporation (IDC), overtaking Samsung’s 226.6m units.
IDC said the crowning of Apple, which released the iPhone 15 in September, was due to trends including the increasing popularity of high-end devices, which now account for more than 20% of the market. Read More...
FamilyAngelica Garnett grew up within the charmed circle of the Bloomsbury group – her aunt was Virginia Woolf. But her childhood was a tangled web of deceit, which she's still trying to unravel at the age of 91To the outside world, the painter and writer Angelica Garnett must have appeared to have had a charmed childhood. She grew up at Charleston farmhouse in East Sussex with her mother, the painter Vanessa Bell, her brothers, Julian and Quentin, and their father, Clive Bell. Read More...
Jay Rayner on restaurantsFoodReviewThere’s a new high-end Italian place in Covent Garden, where the waiters wear DJs and the customers swoon
Margot, 45 Great Queen Street, London WC2B 5AA (020 3409 4777). Meal for two, including drinks and service: £140
You can smell the money at Margot: both the cash that has been spent on opening it and the cash that will now be spent inside. There are fat leather banquettes in the shade of deep grey favoured for suits by Gieves & Hawkes. Read More...