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BEIJING: Strong demand for Apple's latest iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 plus smartphones has helped the Chinese market outsell the United States for the first time, according to tech news hub pingwest.com citing a report from investment banking firm UBS.
Steven Milunovich, an analyst with UBS, said iPhone demand saw outsized growth in China and China could constitute as much as 35 percent of shipments in the last quarter of 2014, way higher than the 24 percent ratio of the US market. During the same period last year, China's market share was 22 percent.
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