Of the 27% of Chinese phones that cost >$500, 80% are Apples

Of the 27% of Chinese phones that cost >$500, 80% are Apples

The most popular category of apps on smartphones costing less than $150 is "wallpaper."

<p>FORTUNE -- New evidence suggests that Apple's (AAPL) much-criticized China strategy -- of targeting the high end of the Chinese smartphone market and ignoring the low -- may be working better than overall market-share data suggest.</p>
<p>The evidence comes from Umeng, a Flurry-like app analytics firm that is installed, according to Benedict Evans, on a large share of the smartphone apps MORE<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tech.fortune.cnn.com&blog=8466345&post=136201&subd=fortunebrainstormtech&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" /><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/fortuneapple20/~4/1-MwlcokqMU" height="1" width="1"/>

Source: Of the 27% of Chinese phones that cost &gt;$500, 80% are Apples