Apple’s Q3 China smartphone sales slip 0.3% while Huawei’s jump 42%

Apple’s iPhone sales in China slipped 0.3 per cent while rival Huawei posted a 42 per cent surge in the third quarter of 2024, as competition intensifies in the world’s largest smartphone market.

Apple reached second place with a 15.6 per cent market share, though down 0.5 percentage points year-on-year, while Huawei claimed third place with 15.3 per cent, gaining 4.2 percentage points, showed data from researcher IDC on Friday.