Huawei widened its smartphone lead on Apple amid reports of nationalistic buying in China
August 27, 2019 at 13:40 PM EDT
President Donald Trump’s hard stance toward China on trade, and Huawei Technologies Co. specifically, didn’t help iPhone sales in the second quarter. While Huawei recorded a 16.5% jump in smartphone sales year-over-year, spurred by sales in its native China, Apple Inc.’s sales fell 13%, according to global sales figures released Tuesday by market researcher Gartner Inc.
