Analyst: Chinese iPhone sales dip just a temporary issue

Just ahead of the Lunar New Year festival, the Chinese government curbed travel in late January affecting iPhone sales in the country. Those restrictions stayed largely in place through most of the month of February. In addition, Apple’s branded stores in China were shut for at least two weeks in February as fears over the coronavirus outbreak mounted.
In February, Apple’s sales of iPhone amounted to fewer than 500,000 units in China, according to Chinese government data released on