Apple shipped roughly 500,000 phones in China in February, according to the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT).
Across the industry, smartphone companies are looking for a strong recovery in demand in China, where the coronavirus now appears to be subsiding, just as it spreads overseas and looks set to trigger a global recession.
Mobile phone shipments in China in March totalled 21 million units, according to CAICT, representing a three-fold increase from February. However, that is still down roughly 20% compared with March 2019.
Chinese retailers have, by and large, resumed operations with brick-and-mortar outlets re-opening and e-commerce logistics getting back in gear after the virus and tough containment measures brought much of the economy to a standstill in the first two months of 2020.
