iPhone sales in China picked up (slightly) in April

Coming out of a 50% plunge in March, new data from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) shows that non-Chinese phone makers saw a small, but welcome rebound in April.

Small gains mean big news

According to the report, which hasn’t yet been made available publicly but has been seen by Reuters, foreign-branded smartphone shipments in China totaled 3.52 million units in April. That’s just a hair up from 3.50 million in the same month last year, but…