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Apple’s market share in urban China fell for the first time since 2014 as local brands bite

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<p>Shopping analytics giant Kantar Worldpanel <a href="http://www.kantarworldpanel.com/global/smartphone-os-market-share/" target="_blank">reports[/url] that Apple’s smartphone has experienced its first fall in market share in urban <a href="http://9to5mac.com/tag/china/" target="_blank">China[/url] since 2014.</p>

<p class="p1"><span class="s1">“For the first time since August 2014, iOS share did not grow in urban China in the 3 months ending February,” said Tamsin Timpson, strategic insight director at Kantar Worldpanel ComTech Asia. “iOS declined 3.2 percentage points between February 2015 and February 2016.”</span></p>

<p>Kantar said that the increasing popularity of local smartphone brands was the main reason for the fall …</p>
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