3 smartphone vendors which fared even better than Apple in the Chinese market last year

SINGAPORE (Feb 6): In 2016, Apple Inc. saw a y-o-y decline in the Chinese market for the first time ever – even as the smartphone market in China saw both y-o-y and q-o-q growth over the past year, according to a recent report by International Data Corporation (IDC).

Data from the latest IDC Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker suggests that top Chinese smartphone vendors have been capturing a larger slice of the China market pie instead, with Oppo, Huawei and Vivo capturing 16.8%, 16.4% and 14.8% of market share respectively in 2016 alone, as compared to Apple’s 9.6%.

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