Apple still leads high-end smartphone sales in China, but Huawei and Honor are catching up

Apple’s dominance in China’s high-end smartphone market is being challenged by local rivals, including US-sanctioned Huawei Technologies, according to new data from industry consultancy IDC. While smartphone shipments in China rose 6.5 per cent to 69.3 million devices in the first quarter, Apple shipped 10.8 million iPhones, down from 14.7 million in the fourth quarter … Read more

Apple CEO Tim Cook visits Vietnam as US tech giant’s supply chain shift stirs unease in China

Apple chief executive Tim Cook has kicked off his two-day visit to Vietnam, as the US tech giant’s efforts to diversify its supply chain comes into focus again, just weeks after the CEO concluded a tour in the company’s key market of China. On Monday, Apple announced on its Vietnam website that it would “increase … Read more

One brand took the top 7 spots in 2023 smartphone sales

Seven of the top 10 bestselling handsets in 2023 were iPhones, according to data from research firm Counterpoint. This marks the first time in Counterpoint’s tracking of such data that Apple’s handset has dominated the chart to this extent. The research revealed the iPhone 14 to be the biggest seller, with 3.9% of all smartphone sales … Read more

Chinese smartphone vendors from Meizu to Oppo step up AI integration in their devices amid expected industry recovery in 2024

“Meizu will build an ecosystem to fully open its AI devices to leading global LLM providers, including OpenAI, to jointly promote AI innovation and development,” the company said. An Oppo internal letter released on February 18, 2024, said the impact of artificial intelligence on its industry would be comparable to the period when smartphones replaced … Read more