Apple's down only due to poor, in-country China sales and not much else (sorry to chit on a good ol' DS political fight).

Huawei and ZTE are completely taking over inside of China and both offer huge, deep discounts to move over to their phones (Tencent). China was Apple's largest growth market for the past several years and it used to be that the name alone carried a premium status for China citizens. As we know, they are all about status - it's all they care about.

Unfortunately, the iPhone and Apple isn't considered all "that cool" any longer over there. There's better options with more technology at a lower price and it's eating Apple's lunch. Remember, not many over here can afford a $1k phone and even less can afford that over there. They only make 10 - 15% of what Americans do and its outrageously expensive to live there.

This is Apple's arrogance and fault. Nobody else's.