How Samsung’s ‘gadget spam’ is crushing Apple in the world’s top smartphone market

With Apple’s revenue from China having dropped last quarter, the company is coming under more pressure to negotiate a deal with carrier China Mobile to get its devices into the hands of more consumers in China, the world’s top smartphone market. Adding to the pressure on Apple to cut a deal with China Mobile is the performance of its arch-rival Samsung, which is positively crushing Apple in the Chinese smartphone market. Reuters has a lengthy report detailing how Samsung’s is running rings around Apple in China and much of it has to do with practices that Samsung’s critics often cite as a reason for its inferiority to Apple: Namely, its willingness to spam a market with different variations of gadgets



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