APPLE Inc.’s iPhone shipments in China fell more than 35 percent in November, marking their second straight double-digit decline as sales of the cheaper iPhone 11 remained sluggish, brokerage Credit Suisse said.

Total iPhone shipments in China in the September-November period dropped 7.4 percent from a year earlier, Credit Suisse analyst Matthew Cabral said, citing data from China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

The latest iPhone 11 range hit stores in China in September, with short queues of die-hard fans contrasting with the hundreds who camped out ahead of some previous launches.

Apple’s market share in China slipped to 5 percent from 7 percent in the third quarter, while Huawei Technologies Co. captured a record 42 percent of China’s smartphone market in the same period, according to a report by market research firm Canalys released in October.

(SD-Agencies)