iPhone's Likely China Surge Giving Apple a Holiday Bright Spot
- Shipments of non-Android phones climbed an estimated 33%
- Growth comes as expectations on iPhone sales retreat
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China shipments of smartphones from Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp. and other makers that don’t use the Android operating system rose by about 33 percent in the final quarter of last year, according to government and analyst data, indicating strong sales for the iPhone in its largest market outside the U.S.
About 24.3 million smartphones not powered by Google Inc.’s software shipped within China between October and December, according to data provided by the China Academy of Telecommunication Research, a research arm of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. That total, the vast majority of which would be comprised of iPhones, increased by a third from the same period a year earlier, Marbridge Consulting said in an e-mail.