The iPhone 17 outsold the iPhone 16 by 14% in its first 10 days across the U.S. and China

Apple’s newest iPhone 17 is already outperforming last year’s iPhone 16, with sales jumping 14% higher during the first 10 days of release in the United States and China, according to Counterpoint ￰0￱ is Apple’s first quantifiable look at how the new iPhone is doing in its two most important markets, and so far, things are moving ￰1￱ to data from Bloomberg, the base iPhone 17, priced at $799, is showing much higher demand than the iPhone 16 did at ￰2￱ China, sales of the standard iPhone 17 model are already nearly double what the iPhone 16 managed in the same launch ￰3￱ growth is reportedly being credited to hardware, not ￰4￱ iPhone 17 now ships with more storage, a better screen, and Apple’s new A19 chip, an upgrade from last year’s version that’s actually being noticed by buyers.

“Consumers are resonating with the base model iPhone 17 on improved specs and upgrades,” said Ivan Lam, senior analyst at Counterpoint. “In China, sales are almost double those of the base iPhone 16 over the initial availability period – and the momentum continues to be good into October.” Apple sees Pro Max bump from pandemic-era users While the base model is moving fast, it’s not the only ￰5￱ iPhone 17 Pro Max is also getting a strong response, especially in the ￰6￱ who haven’t upgraded since the pandemic are now returning for Apple’s highest-end version, which comes with redesigned physical features, an overhauled heat system, and the best camera setup Apple’s ever sold in a ￰7￱ with all this hardware attention, the company is still facing serious problems on the software side.

Apple’s rollout of AI features is still a ￰8￱ Intelligence hasn’t launched in China yet, and its troubled Siri upgrade is now delayed into next ￰9￱ all that, the iPhone is still holding up sales-wise, Apple still relies on it for about half of its revenue, and it’s working for ￰10￱ the phone business, Apple also launched a new 14-inch MacBook Pro, iPad Pro, and Vision Pro, but didn’t even bother throwing an event for ￰11￱ three were quietly announced on a Wednesday morning, and the changes are barely ￰12￱ are what Apple calls “chip-and-ship” refreshes, they stuck in the new M5 chip, which benchmarks 15% to 20% faster than the M4, but most people won’t notice.

Internally, even Apple is pushing these products as replacements for old Intel MacBooks or first-gen M1 ￰13￱ division loses top engineers as Siri continues to stall Inside Apple, things are falling apart in the AI ￰14￱ company’s efforts to reboot Siri have been chaotic since last year, and now it’s losing key ￰15￱ Apple Foundation Models team has already lost its founder and about a dozen ￰16￱ exits are on the ￰17￱ this week, Ke Yang, who led Apple’s Answers, Knowledge and Information (AKI) unit, quit and joined Meta Platforms ￰18￱ was supposed to be in charge of making Siri more like ChatGPT, but he only lasted a few weeks before walking ￰19￱ replaced Robby Walker, who also left ￰20￱ wasn’t well-liked inside the team, but the back-to-back departures are still a ￰21￱ is now testing iOS 26.4, which is supposed to include the new ￰22￱ people testing the build are already raising issues with how well it works.

Meanwhile, the company’s top AI executive, John Giannandrea, also known as JG, is under pressure. JG’s responsibilities have already been trimmed: Siri was moved into Apple’s software group, and robotics was reassigned to the hardware ￰23￱ are already talks that Craig Federighi and Mike Rockwell are stepping in to manage more of Apple’s AI ￰24￱ the same time, Apple is reportedly interviewing outsiders to replace JG ￰25￱ was brought in back in 2018 to lead Apple’s AI direction, but things clearly haven’t gone as ￰26￱ $50 free to trade crypto when you sign up to Bybit now