The growing dominance of these three Chinese companies should be a cause of worry for Apple Apple 's ( NASDAQ:AAPL ) sales in China took a massive beating last year, dropping an estimated 23%, which pushed its market share into the single digits, per research from IDC. Now, the latest sales data from the Middle Kingdom indicates that local smartphone players have continued gaining on the iPhone maker. Apple isn't going anywhere in China Market research firm Canalys estimates that Chinese smartphone sales jumped 9% during the first quarter of 2017, but most of the gains were lapped up by just three companies. As it turns out, Huawei , OPPO , and Vivo took the top three spots, accounting for 50% of sales, up from a combined market share of 42% in the prior-year period.