Despite heavily promoting its new A.I. technology, Apple released an iPhone in September without its signature selling point: an A.I. system called Apple Intelligence. The A.I. features became available about a month later in the United States and eventually expanded to other English-speaking countries.
Apple hasn’t yet released Apple Intelligence in China, its second-most important market, weakening the iPhone’s appeal there. The company’s share of smartphone sales in China fell 2.4 percentage points last year to 15.5 percent, according to Counterpoint Research, a market research firm. Apple, which plans to make its A.I. offering available in additional languages in April, said sales in China fell 11 percent to $18.51 billion…Read More
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