{"id":247189,"date":"2026-05-17T05:27:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T09:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/apple-iphone-17-sales-rise-amid-samsung-galaxy-s26-delay\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T05:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T09:55:07","slug":"apple-iphone-17-sales-rise-amid-samsung-galaxy-s26-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/apple-iphone-17-sales-rise-amid-samsung-galaxy-s26-delay\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple iPhone 17 Sales Rise Amid Samsung Galaxy S26 Delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/apple-iphone-17-sales-rise-amid-samsung-galaxy-s26-delay-2026-5\">Apple iPhone 17 Sales Rise Amid Samsung Galaxy S26 Delay<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/apple-iphone-17-sales-rise-amid-samsung-galaxy-s26-delay-2026-5\">https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/apple-iphone-17-sales-rise-amid-samsung-galaxy-s26-delay-2026-5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-17 05:27:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.businessinsider.com\">www.businessinsider.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The iPhone 17 is on a hot streak for Apple while competitors cool down.<\/p>\n<p>\n                          <span class=\"audio-player-label label-md-strong\">Loading audio narration&#8230;<\/span>\n                        <\/p>\n<p>Apple&#8217;s iPhone sales volume in the US grew 1.3% year over year in the first quarter, while the broader smartphone market fell 5.7%, according to market research firm Counterpoint Research. Samsung&#8217;s later-than-usual launch of the Galaxy S26 helped give the iPhone a leg up.<\/p>\n<p>Samsung&#8217;s Galaxy S26 series was delayed from a typical January release to March 11, giving Apple a head start in smartphone sales for the quarter, market research firm Counterpoint Research said. Last year, the Galaxy S25 was unveiled in January and went on sale in February.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When one brand delays a flagship launch, it opens a window of opportunity to fill that vacuum,&#8221; Tyler Graham, senior analyst at Counterpoint Research, said in a statement. &#8220;Apple did just that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Apple has been racking up smartphone wins since it launched the iPhone 17 in September.<strong> <\/strong>The company said it had a &#8220;historic&#8221; holiday quarter for iPhone demand last year, and that strength continued into the March quarter, with 22% growth in iPhone sales.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from delayed launches, economic challenges for consumers also contributed to declines in the overall US smartphone market during the period, according to Counterpoint Research.<\/p>\n<p>Apple&#8217;s pricing strategy helped it keep its edge in the smartphone sales battle. The iPhone 17e,<strong> <\/strong>Apple&#8217;s entry-level smartphone, stayed at $599 \u2014 the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/apple-iphone-17-sales-rise-amid-samsung-galaxy-s26-delay-2026-5\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple iPhone 17 Sales Rise Amid Samsung Galaxy S26 Delay https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/apple-iphone-17-sales-rise-amid-samsung-galaxy-s26-delay-2026-5 Publish Date: 2026-05-17 05:27:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":247191,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/6a075813ecd7cc1332bb02e4?width=1200&format=jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-247189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iphone","tag-iphone-17"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247189"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247194,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247189\/revisions\/247194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}