will the iPhone 16 series lead to Apple's loss to Huawei in China Apple launched its latest smartphone models on September the 9th the new iPhone 16 series mainly attracted attention for its AI features an important addition that Apple banks on to steer customers amid a Slowdown in its sales however AI enhanced services are not available to customers in China yet leading to disappointment for Chinese users and a colossal challenge for Apple in the Chinese market the tech Giant's second largest market after the US the company has long been working with open ai's chat GPT to integrate Apple intelligence traits into its new iPhone models but as neither chat GPT nor other Western AI models are available in China Apple has been knocking on the doors of local technology firms to work on these Advanced features the company said that the launch of AI Services was subject to regulatory approval and the system would start supporting the Chinese language next year at the earliest after the unveiling of the latest models the hasht iPhone 16 Chinese version doesn't support AI yet garnered over 11.33 million views on China's social media platform weebo with some users indicating that they would rather opt for huawei's new AI enhanced three-way foldable model the mate XT which was released only hours after Apple's iPhone launch event so behind Apple's glowing promotion of its new AI enhanced phones there lies rough competition in the Chinese market which constituted 18% of the company's Global Revenue in the first quarter of 2024 while huawei's popularity has been dramatically surging in the region Apple's market share has already dropped to sixth place even earlier in January 2024 the US giant had to slash iPhone 15 prices by $70 in the country whether the lack of AI features on the iPhone 16 series will have a significant impact on near term sales might be questionable but given the already worsening numbers analysts say apple needs Swift adjustments to the situation to remain competitive in its second largest smartphone sales market so well the new iPhone 16 series favor or hinder Apple in this race