Global smartphone shipments reached a record 1.49 billion units back in 2016, while Apple managed to beat Samsung and to grab the leading position in the fourth quarter, thanks to the Note 7 disaster.
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Apple-dominates-the-smartphone-market.194910.0.html
What an ignorant half-article!
How about you do some research before writing?
Samsung shipped over 90 million smart phones in the same quarter.
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.androidheadlines.com/2017/01/samsung-mobile-shipped-98-million-devices-in-q4-2016.html/amp