{"id":27981,"date":"2019-01-04T06:22:17","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T06:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27981"},"modified":"2019-01-04T06:22:17","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T06:22:17","slug":"smartphone-brands-can-no-longer-count-on-china-for-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27981","title":{"rendered":"Smartphone brands can no longer count on China for growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">New Delhi  (CNN Business)<\/cite>Apple is not the only smartphone maker suffering from a slowdown in China. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">CEO Tim Cook partially blamed weaker than expected<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/01\/02\/tech\/apple-iphone-sales-guidance\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"> iPhone sales<\/a> at the end of last year<strong> <\/strong>on the country&#8217;s slowing economy and its ongoing trade war with the United States. But Apple (<a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/quote\/quote.html?symb=AAPL\" target=\"_blank\">AAPL<\/a>) and its biggest competitors are also struggling against an overall decline in the world&#8217;s biggest smartphone market. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Smartphone sales in China declined 8% in the third quarter of 2018 compared to the same period a year earlier, according to Counterpoint Research. Canalys, another research firm, estimated an even steeper drop of around 15% in the same quarter.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi (CNN Business)Apple is not the only smartphone maker suffering from a slowdown in China. CEO Tim Cook partially blamed weaker than expected iPhone sales at the end of last year on the country&#8217;s slowing economy and its ongoing trade war with the United States. But Apple (AAPL) and its biggest competitors are also&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":27982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}