Apple iPhone 16 sales in China put it back at No 2 in local smartphone market for Q3
Apple captured 15.6 per cent of the Chinese smartphone market, behind Vivo’s 18.6 per cent in one of its most important markets
iPhone shipments captured 15.6 per cent of the market in the three months ended September, behind only Vivo at 18.6 per cent, according to IDC on Friday. While Apple’s latest handsets helped it perform better than earlier in the year, its market share was down from 16.1 per cent in the same period last year.
Apple’s smartphone sales fell 0.3 per cent year on year, but initial uptake of the iPhone 16 series, which hit the shelves in September, has largely been on par with the previous generation, according to the report.
China, the world’s largest smartphone market, has seen handset shipments grow 3.2 per cent to 68.8 million units in the third quarter, marking the fourth consecutive quarter of growth, according to IDC.