Apple is reportedly expected to report muted revenue growth this week amid AI hiccups and competition in China. As Reuters reported Wednesday (Jan. 29), Apple and its competitors Samsung and Google have been counting on artificial intelligence (AI) features to boost smartphone sales. However, Apple’s latest iPhone lacked...
Apple reportedly closed out 2024 suffering a double-digit drop in iPhone sales in China. Sales of the company’s flagship product were down 18.2% in China during the last quarter of the year, Bloomberg News reported late Monday (Jan. 20), citing Counterpoint Research data. It was...
Chinese tech giant Alibaba is reportedly slashing prices on its AI large language models. Those markdowns are as high as 85%, CNBC reported Tuesday (Dec. 31), citing a WeChat post from the company’s cloud computing unit. The cuts involve Alibaba’s visual language model, Qwen-VL, created to perceive and...
Apple is reportedly seeking ways to add AI to its smartphones sold in ChatGPT-less China. The iPhone maker is in discussions with two Chinese tech giants — Tencent and TikTok parent ByteDance — about integrating their artificial intelligence (AI) models into its products, Reuters reported Thursday (Dec. 19), citing three sources familiar...
July 15, 2025
China’s smartphone market has begun to dip following six straight quarters of growth. The International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker found that China’s smartphone market shipped 69 million units during the second quarter of this year, a 4% decline from the same period in 2024, according to a Tuesday (July 15) press […]
January 29, 2025
Apple is reportedly expected to report muted revenue growth this week amid AI hiccups and competition in China. As Reuters reported Wednesday (Jan. 29), Apple and its competitors Samsung and Google have been...
January 21, 2025
Apple reportedly closed out 2024 suffering a double-digit drop in iPhone sales in China. Sales of the company’s flagship product were down 18.2% in China during the last quarter of...
December 31, 2024
Chinese tech giant Alibaba is reportedly slashing prices on its AI large language models. Those markdowns are as high as 85%, CNBC reported Tuesday (Dec. 31), citing a WeChat post from the...