Apple can’t conquer China. The Samsung also
According to the latest figures, the company Counterpoint Research, the position of Apple in the Chinese market has seriously deteriorated over the last year.
Specifically, iPhone sales in the first quarter of 2017 fell by 15% compared to the same period last year.
As for market share, the decline is not as dramatic, but still noticeable: 10.1 percent this year against 12.3% in the past.
The main reason for this trend is to strengthen the position of domestic smartphone manufacturers such as Oppo, Vivo and Huawei.
However, much worse things are from South Korean company Samsung, whose sales in China fell as much as 60 percent. The reason for this decline is not known, but it is not necessary to be a leading analyst to understand that it is related to the problems with exploding batteries Galaxy Note 7.
But the most interesting is that with Apple and Samsung dipped noticeably in the sales of another Chinese company — Xiaomi, which has lost as much as 34 percent. It seems that in their quest to copy Apple company lei Just decided to go as far as possible.
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