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Four Chinese handset makers that together account for an estimated 40 percent of global mobile device shipments are building a platform meant to rival Google Play.

Chinese competitors like Huawei, Oppo, and Xiaomi are poised to compete by launching their own devices around Apple's September 12 iPhone 8 event.

Apple is aligning itself more closely with the Chinese government as the tech company's share in the world's largest smartphone market slips to local competition.

Qualcomm unveiled its own under-screen fingerprint-sensing technology at Mobile World Congress 2017 in Shanghai, and Chinese phone maker Vivo is the first to use the technology in a phone.

The businessman behind two of China’s most successful smartphone brands, Oppo and Vivo, says Apple’s failure to adapt to local competition allowed his brands to overtake the US company in the world’s largest smartphone market last year.

Apple has dropped to fifth place in the Chinese smartphone market behind domestic vendors Huawei, Oppo, Vivo, and Xiaomi.

Apple was beaten by local phone manufacturers in China, causing its shipments to decline by 23.2 percent the past year.

Apple has won a record-breaking share in the smartphone market following the release of the new iPhone 7, reports Strategy Analytics. iPhones contributed to 91 percent of all smartphone profits around the world between July and September, followed by Chinese firm Huawei with 2.4 percent. Linda Sui, Director at Strategy Analytics, had this to say...

Apple has lost the Chinese smartphone market to two local manufacturers.