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Apple shifted more iPhones in China than the US in 2014

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By John McCarthy, Opinion Editor

January 26, 2015 | 2 min read

Apple is set to make the landmark announcement that it shifted more iPhones in China than the US in 2014.

Analysts predict that 2014 saw the Californian firm shift more units in China than its native US, following it reaching an agreement with China Mobile, to launch the iPhone 6 in October, according to the Financial Times.

Apple’s increasing presence in the region challenges China’s native smartphone firm Xiaomi which last year toppled Samsung as China’s most popular smartphone brand.

UBS analysts found that in 2014, iPhone sales in China accounted for 36 per cent of Apple’s global sales - up from 22 per cent in 2013. UBS attributed this change in fortunes to the saturation of smartphones in the US, metted with a booming uptake of the devices in China.

Competition between Apple and Xiaomi is heating up with the US firm accusing the Beijing-based company of stealing its smartphone designs last year.

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