APPLE'S CLENCH ON CHINA'S MARKET HAS SLACKENED
APPLE's grapnel on China's tablet merchandise has emancipated as Asian Technology companies have heightened sales with competitive ANDROID TABLET computers, a report told on Thursday. Dickie Chang, senior market analyst at research firm IDC, said Apple endowed 28% of tablet computers in China amid the April-June quarter, down from 49% preeminence a year earlier. "If Apple cuts the price of previous generations of product like it did in phones, then more consumers would love to buy Apple iPad," he said in an email.
The iPad inventor was still the copious tablet supplier in China, its key growth engine, but its impulse has slowed down. Apple sold 1.48 million iPad's in the time span, up 28% over a year earlier, but sales made by Samsung Electronics Co. quadrupled to 571,000 units. Samsung vindicated 11% tablet market share, up from 6%.
Being the world's largest producer of Smartphones, Samsung said prior this year that it aims to double its annual sales of tablet computers, so by will close the gap with Apple. CHINA'S LENOVO, TAIWAN'S ASUS AND ACER also had an intensification in the market share. Chang said these companies benefited from giving economical tablets and from users intimacy with the Android operating system that is availed in many smartphone models.
China has become the main market for consumer technology companies as the rate of sales of smartphones has slowed down in developed countries. Apple CEO TIM COOK told the official Xinhua News Agency in January that China will become the company's biggest market.