Apple’s Chinese smartphone shipment has made 9% slide in the first quarter

By Che Pan and Brenda Goh

The transportation of smartphones in China in Pekin (REUTERS) is reduced by 9% in the first quarter in the first quarter and the research firm became the only large producer of IDC.

Apple, who took the fifth place in the Chinese smartphone market, fell to 9.8 million in the cargo, it saw a market share of 13.7% lower than 17.4% in the previous quarter.

This reduced Apple’s seventh flat quarter.

On the contrary, the market leader Xiaomi, the widespread distributor increased by 3.3%, and the 4.3% increase of 40% to 13.3 million.

IDC analyst Wong Wong, Apple’s premium price structure prevented capitalization of new government subsidies in the first quarter of the US company.

The government returns 15% of the products with a label price under 6,000 yuan ($ 820) for smartphones and some other consumer electronics.

($ 1 = 7.2931 Chinese Yuan)

(Notification by LIZ Lee, Che Pan and Brenda Goh; Edwina Gibbs adjustment)