Chinese Lose Interest in iPhone and Galaxy: Sales of Local Smartphones Soar by 22%, while Imported Smartphones Have Almost Stopped Growing

In China’s domestic market, local brands are the most popular smartphones, as illustrated by IDC’s Q3 stats last year, which show Vivo in the lead. Apple only jumped to second place thanks to the debut of the iPhone 16, while it did not make it into the top five in Q2. In December, it turns out, smartphone shipments in China grew by 22.1%, but imported brands added only 0.6%.

Image Source: Apple

In fact, the products of most foreign companies are still assembled in China, so they can be considered imported only in terms of the origin of the trademark. As Reuters notes, citing December statistics from the CAICT association, in the last month of last year, smartphones of foreign brands on the Chinese market increased their supply volumes year-on-year from 3.72 to 3.74 million units. That is, the increase was measured at a modest 0.6%.

For comparison, smartphone shipments of all brands in China increased by 22.1% to 34.53 million in December. In other words, foreign brands accounted for just over 10% of shipments in December. It is generally accepted that Apple products play a key role in this category on the Chinese market. In the third quarter of last year, for example, they accounted for 15.6% of the local smartphone market. The fact that shipments did not increase much in December indicates some stagnation in demand. On the other hand, Apple Intelligence features will become available to Chinese iPhone 16 users in May, so demand for smartphones of this generation may increase significantly.

admin

Share
Published by
admin

Recent Posts

Study: Apple C1 mobile modem falls short of Qualcomm modems in terms of connection quality in difficult conditions

A study by Cellular Insights Inc. found that Qualcomm's mobile modems perform better than Apple's…

5 hours ago

Tesla Warns Trump Administration of Chip Tariffs

Tesla has called on the Trump administration to exercise caution in imposing tariffs on imported…

5 hours ago

To better compete with OpenAI, Meta will split its AI team into two

Meta✴ will split its AI teams to better compete with OpenAI and Google, as well…

5 hours ago

The Order: 1886 Director Co-Founds New Studio — Atlantis Studio Aims to Conquer the Industry with Innovative Games

Ru Weerasuriya, co-founder of Ready at Dawn, which closed last summer, and creative director of…

5 hours ago

Review of the wireless speaker “Yandex Station Street”: Alice in the cities

To be honest, when I first saw the news about the release of the portable…

5 hours ago

Blacktail developers announce Davy x Jones — a shooter about the headless pirate Davy Jones in the afterlife of sailors

Polish studio Parasight, known for the folklore action game Blacktail about the young Baba Yaga,…

1 day ago