According to Reuters, market research firm Gartner said in a report Thursday, Smartphone sales in the Chinese market 4% per cent decline in the second quarter of this year, for the first time ever.
"The Chinese market has reached the saturation point-that is, growth in the mobile phone market is basically driven by upgrades and first time Smartphone buyers left. "The Gartner market research director of Anschau er·guputa (Anshul Gupta).
China is the world's largest smartphone market, sales in the second quarter accounted for about 30% of total global sales.
Gartner report also pointed out that global smartphone sales growth has fallen to its lowest level in 2013. Standing at the crossroads of Chinese TV independent
Apple iPhone sold worldwide in the second quarter and in the first place, market share increased from 12.2% earlier this year to the second quarter of 14.6%. Among them, iPhone sales in the Chinese market in the second quarter compared with 68% increase to 11.9 million units.
Large-screen Apple phone iPhone 6 and 6 Plus is the main contributor to help the company set sales records, the two products have been released to date is 11 months old.
As competitors Samsung, market share in the second quarter of this year has dropped to 21.9% from 26.2% in earlier. In April this year, the company released a whole new generation of Galaxy S6, but product sales were still big screen iPhone 6 and 6 Plus.
From the perspective of percentage of global sales, Huawei ranked in fourth place. The company set a 46.3% per cent growth rate in the second quarter, mainly because of the international business and China 4G the growth in Smartphone sales.
On Wall Street Thursday in regular trading, Apple shares with the market down about 2%, to close at $ 112.65.
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