Apple’s China challenge deepens as foreign phone sales slump 47.4% in Nov

Shipments to China of foreign-branded smartphones, including Apple Inc’s iPhone, fell by 47.4 per cent in November from a year earlier, according to data released on Friday from a government-affiliated research firm.

Calculations based on the data from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) showed that foreign brand shipments decreased to 3.04 million units from 5.769 million units a year earlier.