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Despite the country being a key market continuing to see tremendous growth, Apple nevertheless lost ground in China to native phonemakers Xiaomi and Huawei during the June quarter, according to Canalys market research data teased on Monday.
Xiaomi reclaimed the lead with a 15.9 percent share, Canalys said. Huawei grew 48 percent sequentially to a 15.7 percent share, helping to push Apple down to third place, and growing faster than any other company in the top 10. Samsung and Vivo took fourth and fifth place.
Canalys didn't quote Apple's exact share in advance of publishing a full report later this week. In July, however, Apple announced that it had shipped 47.5 million iPhones worldwide during the June period, and that Chinese revenues were up 112 percent overall — presumably because of the iPhone, its flagship product.
Canalys analyst Jingwen Wang commented that while Apple and Samsung have increased channel coverage through flagship stores and small- to medium-sized phone retailers, the Chinese smartphone market stayed stagnant during the June quarter. As a result, competition "has never been so intense," Wang said.
Apple is continuing to succeed on a global level. Recent Strategy Analytics data pointed to Apple becoming the second-biggest cellphone vendor worldwide during the June quarter, including not just smartphones but basic "feature" phones, which often sell in poorer markets that smartphones can't reach.
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This is the beginning of the doomed.
The market was stagnet but the chinese supplier grew market share, you can not be stagnet and growing at the same time. Must the that fuzzy math these analysis are using.
A correction, at least.
[...]In July, however, Apple announced [...] Chinese revenues were up 112 percent overall -- presumably because of the iPhone, its flagship product.
Canalys analyst Jingwen Wang commented that while Apple and Samsung have increased channel coverage through flagship stores and small- to medium-sized phone retailers, the Chinese smartphone market stayed stagnant during the June quarter. As a result, competition "has never been so intense," Wang said.
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2 things...
1) Success isn't in units shipped, it's in profits retained.
2) I'm having hard time believing the analysts seeing apple doubling revenue, and at the same time dropping to 3rd place in quarterly shipments, when they classify China Smartphones as a 'stagnant' market.
Meaningless without context. Were the gains made by Xiaomi and Huawei in the high end flagship market or the low end crap phone market? I’m sure Apple is happy to concede the low end to these two companies just like it does Samsung. Since Apple’s Chinese revenues were up 112% I’m guessing they are not all that concerned about this ‘report’ that implies impending failure and collapse by Apple. Of course these kinds of reports are what generate ad clicks so I’m not surprised that the context of these results are ignored and not reported.