The volume of worldwide smartphone shipments in 2025 is expected to be impacted by uncertainty, tariff volatility and a slowdown in consumer spending, market intelligence firm International Data Corporation (IDC) said Thursday (May 29). IDC lowered its forecast for worldwide smartphone shipments in 2025 from...
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...
Apple’s iPhone sales reportedly dropped 5% late last year amid stronger competition from Chinese rivals. Much of this decline can be attributed to the lack of Apple’s artificial intelligence (AI) features on phones sold in China, the company’s biggest market beyond the U.S., Bloomberg News...
New research shows the smartphone market recovering in 2024 following two years of sharp declines. However, Apple’s iPhone played just a small part in that recovery compared to rival Android phones, data released Tuesday (Nov. 26) by IDC shows. Global smartphone shipments for the year...
November 23, 2025
Sales of Apple’s iPhone Air have reportedly been lower than anticipated. That’s according to a report Saturday (Nov. 22) by the Financial Times (FT), citing early sales data for the Air, a thinner iPhone and the largest change to Apple’s smartphone design in years. According to the report, consumers instead have sought out better value […]
May 30, 2025
The volume of worldwide smartphone shipments in 2025 is expected to be impacted by uncertainty, tariff volatility and a slowdown in consumer spending, market intelligence firm International Data Corporation (IDC)...
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...
January 13, 2025
Apple’s iPhone sales reportedly dropped 5% late last year amid stronger competition from Chinese rivals. Much of this decline can be attributed to the lack of Apple’s artificial intelligence (AI)...