{"id":226936,"date":"2026-03-24T04:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T08:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/apples-iphone-air-is-taking-sales-away-from-the-iphone-17-pro-while-crushing-the-galaxy-s25-edge\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T04:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T08:20:11","slug":"apples-iphone-air-is-taking-sales-away-from-the-iphone-17-pro-while-crushing-the-galaxy-s25-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/apples-iphone-air-is-taking-sales-away-from-the-iphone-17-pro-while-crushing-the-galaxy-s25-edge\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple’s iPhone Air is taking sales away from the iPhone 17 Pro while crushing the Galaxy S25 Edge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apple’s iPhone Air is taking sales away from the iPhone 17 Pro while crushing the Galaxy S25 Edge<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.phonearena.com\/news\/apple-iphone-air-taking-sales-away-from-iphone-17-pro-crushing-galaxy-s25-edge_id179111<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-03-24 04:02:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.phonearena.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Was Apple right to not follow up the 2024-released iPhone 16 Plus with a Plus-branded member of the iPhone 17 family last year and instead elect to start an entirely new iPhone Air<\/span> series? Would it make any sense for the iPhone 18 lineup to include a Plus model next spring?It’s not easy to definitively answer those questions without official and detailed sales data for the iPhone 16 and 17 rosters, but a fascinating new Ookla report reveals some key differences between the apparent user bases of the first-ever iPhone Air<\/span> and (possibly) the last-ever iPhone Plus that suggest Apple made a wise decision in 2025.<\/p>\n

A big hit in Asia, a moderate one in the US<\/h2>\n

Based on Speedtest samples from around the world, it looks like the iPhone Air<\/span> was more than twice as successful in Q4 2025 as the iPhone 16 Plus<\/span> during the same timeframe of 2024, particularly excelling in countries like South Korea and Japan while finding significantly smaller audiences in Taiwan, Malaysia, and Poland.<\/p>\n

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Those are some pretty big disparities between countries like Japan and Taiwan, for instance. | Image by Ookla<\/p>\n

Stateside, the razor-thin 6.5-inch flagship was not tremendously popular… or terribly unpopular, accounting for nearly 7 percent of the “iPhone generation 17’s” speed tests conducted between October and December 2025.<\/p>\n

Now, I know exactly what you’re thinking. That can’t be the best and most reliable way of measuring a handset’s success, as the number of global Speedtest visits is impossible to scientifically correlate with a product’s actual sales figures. But when the iPhone 16 Plus<\/span> held a microscopic share of its family’s user-initiated speed evaluations in Q4 2024 and the iPhone Air<\/span> boosted that slice of the pie from 2.9 to 6.8 percent in the final three months of last year, it became pretty clear which of the two devices…<\/p>\n

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