“During Apple’s latest Financial Conference Call last month [Apple CEO Tim Cook] had a lot to report on regarding Greater China,” Jack Purcher reports for Patently Apple. “For instance, the iPhone experienced 71% year-over-year growth with 1$6.8 billion worth of sales; Mac sales in China were up a whopping 31% and the App Store in China had grown 100%. The key to China thus far has been Apple’s telecom partnerships with China Mobile being the most important.”
“By the end of 2014, China gained almost 100 million LTE subscriptions in the first year of full LTE commercialization, demonstrating an accelerating growth momentum,” Purcher reports. “ABI Research further states in their report that “Thanks to the first-mover advantages, China Mobile seized almost 90% share of the total LTE market in China.”
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