"IPhone" loses part of its share in the world market for competitors in China
‘Apple’ sold a fewer ‘iPhone’ devices last year and lost a market share for its Chinese competitors last year, reflecting the absence of Apple Intelligence Function of Apple in its largest market outside the United States. The ‘iPhone’ market share was one point to 18%in 2024, according to data from ‘Counterpoint Research’. The biggest competitor, Samsung Electronics, also gave up a stake for China’s Android hardware manufacturers led by Xiaomi and Vivo. According to Apple, Apple recorded a 2% decline in sales for the whole year, while the broader market has grown by 4% worldwide. Based in Cubino, Cuburnia, Apple is making efforts to keep up with its competitors in the field of artificial intelligence as it launches a set of artificial intelligence improvements in the phases after the launch of the iPhone 16 in September. But these additions to artificial intelligence were in no way available in China, as the company is still working on managing local partners who can help provide functions such as writing assistant and generate images using artificial intelligence. Apple is growing strongly in Latin America, “the iPhone 16 series Apple was met with a mixed response, partly due to the lack of Apple’s artificial intelligence feature at launch,” says Tarun Patak, director of the Country Point Company. “But Apple is still growing strongly in its non -essential markets, such as Latin America,” he added. The researchers found that Lenovo, Huawei Technologies and Uner Divis were the fastest growing brands in the first ten. All smartphones manufacturers in China develop their artificial intelligence instruments and agents, including services that can perform tasks on the user.