BEIJING: Apple lost its status as the best selling smartphone brand in the crucial Chinese market last year, new data showed Thursday, with a pair of local rivals surpassing it with surging shipments.

Apple lost its position as Chinas top smartphone seller in 2024, as Vivo and Huawei overtook the iPhone maker amid a 17% decline in Apples annual shipments, according to Canalys. This marked Apples steepest annual

One factor is the company’s struggle to launch Apple Intelligence features in the country after being unable to get permission to use its own generative AI model there … Canalys reports that iPhone shipments in China fell by 25% year-on-year in the final quarter of the year.

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