Apple sold fewer than half a million smartphones in China in February, governmen...
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China placed curbs on travel and asked residents to avoid public places in late January, just ahead of the Lunar New Year festival, a major gift-giving holiday. Those restrictions stayed largely in place through most of February. Android brands, which include devices made by Huawei Technologies and Xiaomi, accounted for most of the drop, as they collectively saw shipments decline from 12.72 million units in February 2019 to 5.85 million, the data showed.
Research firms IDC and Canalys have previously forecasted that overall smartphone shipments would drop roughly 40% in the first quarter as the virus outbreak hurt demand and sparked supply chain issue.
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