{"id":977105,"date":"2025-11-28T08:15:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T02:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=977105"},"modified":"2025-11-28T08:23:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T02:53:06","slug":"apple-single-handedly-drives-singles-day-smartphone-sales-growth-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/28\/apple-single-handedly-drives-singles-day-smartphone-sales-growth-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple single-handedly drives Singles&#8217; Day smartphone sales growth in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Strong demand for Apple&#8217;s iPhone during China&#8217;s Singles&#8217; Day shopping festival single-handedly drove growth in smartphone sales during the period, research firm Counterpoint said on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>Apple accounted for 26% of all smartphones sold over the month-long event, with total sales across brands increasing 3% from a year earlier. <\/p>\n<p>Sales of Apple&#8217;s iPhone 17 were particularly brisk, Counterpoint said. Excluding Apple, Singles&#8217; Day smartphone sales declined 5% overall, &#8220;reflecting a cautious consumer environment drained of momentum&#8221;, it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strong demand for Apple&#8217;s iPhone during China&#8217;s Singles&#8217; Day shopping festival single-handedly drove growth in smartphone sales during the period, research firm Counterpoint said on Thursday. Apple accounted for 26% of all smartphones sold over the month-long event, with total sales across brands increasing 3% from a year earlier. Sales of Apple&#8217;s iPhone 17 were particularly brisk, Counterpoint said. Excluding Apple, Singles&#8217; Day smartphone sales declined 5% overall, &#8220;reflecting a cautious consumer environment drained of momentum&#8221;, it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-977105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977105","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=977105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=977105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=977105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=977105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}