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China becomes the iPhone growth story Apple shareholders and seasoned observers alike were taken aback. In the prior quarter, when the iPhone 5s was brand new and the holiday shopping season was in full swing, its sales of 51m smartphones came in 4m below analysts’ expectations. Investors sent Apple stock 8 per cent lower in response and were braced for another disappointment this week. in the prior quarter 在前一个季度 in full swing 活跃；蓬勃高涨 China becomes the iPhone growth story But in what is traditionally a slower quarter for the smartphone market, a more than 5m unit improvement over Wall Street’s iPhone forecasts helped lift Apple’s share price by 8 per cent in after-hours trading on Wednesday. One obvious change is Apple’s new deal with China Mobile. Many on Wall Street had written off the new partnership between the world’s most valuable company and the world’s largest mobile carrier, in part due to the slow rollout of China Mobile’s 4G network, which the latest iPhones use. rollout 首次展示 China becomes the iPhone growth story But that failed to reckon with the continuing popularity of the 3G-friendly iPhone 4S, first released in 2011 and now selling at a discount. The popularity of older iPhones showed up in a substantial drop in the device’s average selling price to $596, which is $41 below where it was the previous quarter. After remaining steady for years the iPhone’s average cost suddenly lurched to what one analyst called its biggest sequential drop ever. lurch 摇摆不定 sequential 连续的 China becomes the iPhone growth story But that might not be a bad thing. Apple said about half of that $41 was due to the strong performance of the iPhone 4S in emerging markets, with the rest largely down to people buying devices with less memory on board than during the Christmas splurge. “I think that the 4S is helping Apple across emerging markets with China being the one that most takes advantage of that,” says Carolina Milanesi, analyst