iPhone’s market share in China falls to just 5%

[Wireless News]

Tim Cook’s talks with China Mobile have just taken on some more urgency. Bloomberg reports that research firm Canalys has just found that the iPhone’s market share fell to just 5% in China in the second quarter of 2013, down from 9% in Q2 2012..Nicole Peng, Canalys’s China research director, tells Bloomberg that Apple is getting walloped by low-cost Android phones being pushed by vendors such as Lenovo, ZTE and.Xiaomi, which have all been peddling dirt-cheap smartphones with surprisingly strong specifications. “Apple is only focused on the high-end segment, and China’s smartphone market growth right now is coming from the mid- to low-end,” Peng said. “Apple doesn’t have any products in the mid- to low-end and that’s where Xiaomi has

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