iPhone Sales in China See Small Rise in April

Hey, guess what? It looks like foreign phones, you know, like the iPhones from Apple, actually sold a little better in China in April. Yeah, according to some folks who track this stuff from a government research place, they saw a tiny bump. Like, they shipped 3.52 million of those phones compared to 3.50 million a year ago in April. Pretty cool, right?
Since Apple is, like, the biggest foreign phone company in China, how they do really makes a big difference in these numbers. This little increase in April is kind of interesting because things were a bit slow for them in the first few months of the year. Their sales in China actually went down by 9% back then. Idk, maybe things are picking up?
You know, Apple's got a lot of competition in China from local phone companies. So, they've even had to cut prices to try and keep up. I saw that some online shopping sites in China were even giving big discounts, like up to 2,530 yuan (that's like $351!) off the newest iPhones just recently. They gotta do what they gotta do, I guess. Makes you wonder if those discounts helped sales in April, huh?