Apple Drops Out of Top Four Smartphone Sales in China

Yuan Talks: Chinese smartphone sales down 21 per cent in Q1, Apple drops out of top four

Chinese smartphone shipments suffered a hard decline of 21 per cent year-on-year in the first quarter 2018 to 91 million units, the lowest shipments since the fourth quarter 2013 and the worst drop that Chinese market faced since the beginning of 2012, according to the latest report released by market research firm Canalys on Thursday.

...Top four vendors are all domestic companies, namely Huawei , Oppo, vivo, and Xiaomi.

...Apple dropped two spots to the sixth place in the market after a “significant decline” in shipments from the previous quarter, according to Canalys, but the research firm declined to say how many iPhones were sold in China.