iPhone 17 Pro price drops to lowest level in China<\/a><\/p>\n https:\/\/e.vnexpress.net\/news\/tech\/tech-news\/iphone-17-pro-price-drops-to-lowest-level-in-china-5075098.html<\/a><\/p>\n Publish Date: 2026-05-18 00:12:00<\/a><\/p>\n
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| \n The iPhone 17 Pro (L) and Pro Max. Photo by VnExpres\/Tuan Hung<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n At the same time, Huawei has also lowered prices for its high-end foldable phones for the first time, intensifying competition in China\u2019s premium smartphone market.<\/p>\n “Apple and Huawei are the two companies most closely benchmarked against each other in the high-end segment,” technology analyst Liu Dingding told the Global Times. “Other brands still hold market share, but in terms of premium-market influence, the rivalry is increasingly centered on these two players.”<\/p>\n Liu said both companies are using the 618 shopping festival to boost orders and shipments while competing for a larger share of replacement demand.<\/p>\n Last year, Apple offered limited-time trade-in discounts in China during the same sales festival, while JD.com and other local retailers listed 16 models with discounts of up to 2,530 yuan, according to 9to5Mac.<\/p>\n That helped Apple reverse an earlier sales decline in the country. In the first quarter of 2025, Apple was the only major smartphone vendor to report falling shipments in China, but by the second quarter, Canalys data showed iPhone shipments rising 4% year-on-year.<\/p>\n Apple CFO Kevan Parekh…<\/p>\n |