Samsung could emerge as the big winner from Huawei's miserable week

Huawei's ban in the US could benefit Samsung, considering the Chinese company is the Galaxy smartphone maker's biggest competitor.

operating system, the most popular mobile software in the world.

While Huawei says it has built its own home-made smartphone operating system that will be ready by next year, there's no guarantee that consumers will buy Huawei phones if they have a new, unknown operating system, especially if that means the phones don't have system-level access to popular Google services like Gmail and Google Maps.

That's potentially good news for Samsung, which has been steadily losing market share to Huawei. In the first three months of 2019, Samsung accounted for 23.1% of the worldwide smartphone market, representing an 8.1% decrease from the year-ago period, according toBesides Huawei, no other smartphone maker comes close to Samsung in terms of the global market share.trailed in third place with 11.

If Huawei does see a dip in smartphone sales as a result of these new US government requirements, rivals like Apple and Xiaomi would still have a lot of catching up to do in order to endanger Samsung's spot at the top.That's not to say it's impossible and that Samsung's position at the top is guaranteed. The smartphone market often fluctuates between quarters based on a variety of factors, with Apple and Huawei usually switching back and forth to place in second behind Samsung.

, for example, Apple held 18.2% of the worldwide smartphone market, coming dangerously close to Samsung's 18.7% lead. Huawei placed in third with 16.1% of the market — although its share grew by 43.9% year-over-year while both Apple's and Samsung's declined.

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