According to the Chinese Academy of Information and Communication Technologies (CAICT), smartphone shipments in China fell to 23.1 million units in August 2021, down 9.9% from August 2020. The decrease in supply volumes is not an anomaly: the drop was recorded in July, and according to the results of the first half of the year, it also turned out to be significant. For comparison, in August 2020, 25.6 million smartphones were shipped in China, and in July 2021 this figure was 27.8 million units. That is, the fall happened both on an annualized basis and on a sequential basis. Data...