Apple failed in the Chinese market

Analysts at Canalys have recorded Apple’s decline in the Chinese smartphone market. This was reported in a report on the company’s website.

At the end of the first quarter, Apple ranked fifth among smartphone manufacturers in the region. The company fell from first to fifth place, with sales down 25 percent for the year. The American IT giant sold 10 million iPhones in the region.

Huawei took first place for the first time in 13 quarters, with a market share of 17 percent. Oppo is in second place, Honor is in third place, and Vivo is in fourth place. Huawei sold 11.7 million smartphones in the local market during the reporting period. Canalys analysts called Apple’s fall a failure.

The report’s authors noted that Huawei’s productivity grew by 70 percent over the year. The company managed to successfully reorganize its smartphone business after it was placed on the US sanctions list in 2019.

According to Counterpoint Research, Apple retained third place in the smartphone market in China. Experts said that Huawei is in fourth position.

Earlier, CIRP noted that iPhone sales in the US in the spring fell to a record high. The share of new Apple smartphones relative to other devices was a record low of 33 percent.