{"id":943867,"date":"2025-07-04T18:09:46","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T12:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=943867"},"modified":"2025-07-04T18:09:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T12:39:46","slug":"chinese-sales-of-foreign-phone-makers-including-apple-drop-9-7-in-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/04\/chinese-sales-of-foreign-phone-makers-including-apple-drop-9-7-in-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese sales of foreign phone makers, including Apple, drop 9.7% in May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sales of foreign-branded mobile phones in China, including those of Apple Inc, fell 9.7% year-on-year in May, according to data released by a government-affiliated research company on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Calculations based on the data from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) showed that May shipments of foreign-branded phones in China fell to 4.54 million handsets from the same month last year.<\/p>\n<p>As the largest foreign mobile phone maker in China&#8217;s smartphone-dominated market, Apple&#8217;s performance plays a significant role in the overall data on foreign-branded phone sales in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Apple has faced increased competition from domestic rivals and has cut prices to stay competitive. Chinese e-commerce platforms offered discounts of up to 2,530 yuan ($351) on Apple&#8217;s latest iPhone 16 models in May.<\/p>\n<p>The CAICT data did not give specific figures for Apple.<\/p>\n<p>Shipments of phones within China were down 21.8% year-on-year to 23.72 million handsets for the month, the data showed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sales of foreign-branded mobile phones in China, including those of Apple Inc, fell 9.7% year-on-year in May, according to data released by a government-affiliated research company on Friday. Calculations based on the data from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) showed that May shipments of foreign-branded phones in China fell to 4.54 million handsets from the same month last year. As the largest foreign mobile phone maker in China&#8217;s smartphone-dominated market, Apple&#8217;s performance plays a significant role in the overall data on foreign-branded phone sales in the country. Apple has faced increased competition from domestic rivals and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-943867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecom"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=943867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}