At this rate Apple is no better than Xiaomi or Huawei: using forced labor to make their phones; produce phones in China; biggest market is China; checking your phone for violated content. Maybe time to switch to Xiaomi, it is 3x cheaper and better tech.
When I first read this I thought it was impossible. But it seems like, while Apple’s total revenue from the US is double that of China, actual iPhone sales volumes may not be as far apart. The numbers aren’t publicly available, but Bloomberg has an estimate as of 2017 showing US iPhone sales of 70 million vs 50M in China:
It looks like iPhone sales were going down in China as of then, but their GDP has also grown rapidly in recent years and I’ve seen other charts showing Apple’s China revenue basically increasing in concert with Chinese GDP, so it may not be a stretch to say that China is the biggest iPhone market today. Whoa.
