iPhone doing well in China despite shrinking market
China’s main market research company is out with its latest data, and as the iPhone 16 creeps closer, the iPhone 15 is continuing its recovery in the country.
The latest round of data is for April. CAICT says that foreign-branded phones in China — which is mostly the iPhone — increased by 52% in April year-over-year, from 2.3 million sales in April 2023 to 3.5 million in April 2024.
“I feel great that in an extraordinary competitive environment that we grew iPhone sales in mainland China last quarter,” Cook said during the most recent Apple earnings report. “That may come as a surprise to some people. And so I feel good about China, I think more about long term than I do the next week or so.”
