Rumors swirled last week that LG would begin promoting iPhones in a few of its South Korean shops, because it has stopped producing its personal smartphones,. Now, LG has confirmed that it’s going to begin promoting iPhones and different Apple merchandise subsequent month, ZDNet has reported. 

LG and Samsung agreed in 2018 to solely promote their very own smartphones at their respective shops so they would not compete with smaller cellphone distributors. As such, when LG began to think about promoting iPhones, it reportedly confronted resistance from a smartphone reseller commerce group. Now that it has stopped making its personal telephones, nonetheless, that group has reportedly signed a brand new contract that enables LG to promote telephones from different producers. 

On high of promoting iPhones beginning subsequent month, LG will reportedly promote the Watch and different Apple merchandise. The firm has 400 shops in South Korea, so the transfer might present a major enhance to Apple. It may very well be to the detriment of Apple’s arch-rival Samsung, although, which has primarily had the native smartphone market to itself since LG dropped out. 

Apple supposedly began negotiating with LG to promote telephones in its retail areas after the Korean firm introduced it might finish manufacturing of its personal units. Both Samsung and Apple have been providing to pay LG smartphone house owners as much as 150,000 received ($135) to commerce of their telephones.