Phone sale decline in China, Chinese smartphone brands are selling cheap smartphones worldwide. But the people of their country themselves are not liking Chinese smartphones. Because of this, the smartphone business in China has slowed down. Smartphone sales in China have registered a decline of 3 percent in the last one year. Also, Chinese people prefer to buy Apple devices more than Chinese smartphones. This is the reason why Apple has become the best selling smartphone brand in Chinese. By the way, both Apple and Android smartphone brands are suffering due to the decline in smartphone sales in China.
Chinese themselves are not buying Chinese phones
In the first quarter of the year 2023, the sales of Apple and its Android have been recorded in China. The first quarter of the year 2023 has the highest number of Apple branded phones. Their share has been about 20 percent. But its total shipments in China fell to 13.3 million units, down 3 percent from 2022. Apart from Apple, there has been a decline in the sales of other smartphone brands. Due to this, there has been a decline of about 11 percent in the total smartphone shipment. This is the biggest decline since 2013.
Apple becomes China’s favorite brand
Apple remains the biggest selling brand in China. After this, the Android brand Oppo is present at number two. While Vivo has the third place. Honor and Xiaomi also faced a decline in smartphone sales. There has been a decline of 35 percent in the sale of Honor and 20 percent in the sale of Xiaomi.
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