iPhone Air is twice as successful as the iPhone 16 Plus, new report finds | Infinium-tech

According to a new report from Ookla, the iPhone Air is almost twice as successful as the Plus model it replaces, the iPhone 16 Plus. iPhone Air accounted for 6.8% of iPhone 17 generation sales, while iPhone 16 Plus sales accounted for only 2.9%.

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The iPhone 17 is also more successful than the iPhone 16, with a 7% pie compared to 5.9% overall. Naturally, as you would expect, the iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max are reducing their share of the total sales of the iPhone 17 family compared to the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max. The image below tells it all. As you can see, the Pro model saw the biggest drop, so we can assume some people chose the Air instead of the Pro.

This is based on Ookla’s Speedtest samples, so it’s definitely not official by any means. But if it’s successful, it looks like Apple’s bet on thinness paid off at least a little. If nothing else, the iPhone Air has a far more obvious unique selling point than the iPhone 16 Plus, which was simply a larger iPhone 16.

Interestingly, Ookla says the iPhone Air has outsold Samsung’s Galaxy S25 Edge in the US by a 3-to-1 margin, while the S25 Edge has minimal penetration in the UK and Germany, with less than 1% share.

The same source claims that Apple’s C1X modem featured in the iPhone Air has “reached a critical maturity point, allowing the conversation to shift from a performance gap” to “a strategic equalizer in real-world performance” against Qualcomm. This is based on a comparison with Qualcomm’s X80 modem, with the C1X coming very close in worldwide download speeds, unlike the C1 (which debuted on the iPhone 16e), which can only achieve much slower download speeds.

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