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As part of its effort to further enthrone in the Formosan marketplace , Apple announced this hebdomad that it ’s bring its Apple Developer service to China ’s WeChat app . The service includes news , announcements , and other coming activity for members of the developer residential area , which have typically been offered via Apple ’s website and its own Developer app .
The move derive amidfalling iPhone salesin the Chinese market . In the most recent quarter , sales in China declined 11.1 % , touch iPhone revenue . In part , this is due to Apple facing increase competition from local manufacturer , like Oppo and Huawei . This led the iPhone maker to launch the$599 iPhone 16ewith Apple Intelligence .
The companionship is also reportedly in conversation to wreak AI technologies from Tencent and ByteDance to the new equipment , as it has done in the U.S. with OpenAI ’s ChatGPT .
Tencent , of course , also operates WeChat , a combination messaging , social media , and payments app , that ’s heavy used by Taiwanese users . So Apple ’s reenforcement for WeChat makes sense not only in the tolerant context of expanding its compass with Chinese developers but also as a means of dulcify its AI deal .
