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Declining sales and growth of Chinese brands sees iPhone’s worldwide market share drop three points

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<p>Apple’s <a href="http://9to5mac.com/2016/04/26/apple-earnings-fy16-q2/" target="_blank">falling sales[/url] coupled to strong growth from emerging Chinese brands saw the iPhone’s worldwide market share drop just over three points from 17.9% in the first quarter of 2015 to 14.8% in the same quarter this year, according to Gartner.</p>
<p>Although a saturated smartphone market is part of the challenge faced by Apple, global smartphone sales did continue to grow, by 3.9% to 349M units.</p>
<p>Market leader Samsung also saw its share fall in the same period …</p>
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