Apple eyes perfect 10 with rebound

Strong revenue growth in the third quarter has ended Apple Inc's declining streak of six consecutive quarters in China, the world's largest smartphone market.

Revenue from the China market was $9.8 billion, up 12 percent year-on-year and up 22 percent sequentially.

The quarterly rebound shows the Cupertino, California-based company is responding well in China to mounting competition from Huawei Technologies Co Ltd and other local smartphone makers, market mavens said.