{"id":998948,"date":"2026-03-20T10:04:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T04:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=998948"},"modified":"2026-03-23T11:53:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T06:23:27","slug":"apples-china-smartphone-sales-jump-23-to-start-2026-bucking-industry-trend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/20\/apples-china-smartphone-sales-jump-23-to-start-2026-bucking-industry-trend\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple&#8217;s China smartphone sales jump 23% to start 2026, bucking industry trend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING: Apple posted a 23% surge in China smartphone sales in the first nine weeks of 2026, bucking a broader market decline as some Android phone makers raised prices in response to higher costs for memory chips. <\/p>\n<p>China&#8217;s overall smartphone market fell 4% year-on-year in the January-to-early-March period, with government subsidies introduced \u200cat the \u2060start \u2060of the year doing little to revive sluggish consumer demand, data on Thursday from research firm Counterpoint showed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING: Apple posted a 23% surge in China smartphone sales in the first nine weeks of 2026, bucking a broader market decline as some Android phone makers raised prices in response to higher costs for memory chips. China&#8217;s overall smartphone market fell 4% year-on-year in the January-to-early-March period, with government subsidies introduced \u200cat the \u2060start \u2060of the year doing little to revive sluggish consumer demand, data on Thursday from research firm Counterpoint showed.<\/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-998948","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\/998948","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=998948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}