While there may be many tales of doom-and-gloom surrounding the iPhone X at present, Kantar says that the flagship iPhone made it into the top three rankings in all of the regions it monitors during the last month of the year.

The achievement vindicates Apple’s pricing of the iPhone X, argues the company.

All three of Apple’s latest phones helped the company achieve ‘strong results’ in China, Japan, Australia and parts of Europe.

There was mixed news in Apple’s home market, says the company.

Apple and Samsung account for more than two-thirds of the US market, with a combined share of 70.8%.