Apple’s iPhone 15 Pro Max Becomes Best Selling Smartphone in First Quarter

American devices maker Apple’s iPhone 15 Pro Max has been the best-selling smartphone in the first quarter of this year. It has left behind Apple’s other iPhones and South Korean consumer electronics company Samsung’s smartphones in sales.

a media Report Quoting data from market research firm Counterpoint, it has been told that the second best selling smartphone is iPhone 15. After this there are iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 14. Samsung’s Galaxy S24 Ultra, Galaxy A15 5G and A54 are at fifth, sixth and seventh positions respectively. Typically, in low sales quarters, base variants of iPhones outsell Pro variants. However, the highest sales of iPhone 15 Pro Max in the last quarter is indicating that customers are more fond of premium smartphones.

The share of iPhone Pro models in the total revenue from Apple’s smartphones is estimated to be more than 60 percent. earlier this year Apple had lost its position as the world’s most valuable company. The market capitalization of Microsoft, one of the largest software companies, had exceeded this. Apple is in talks with companies like Google and OpenAI to add AI features to the iPhone. The company has also been shocked by the lack of demand for mixed reality headset Vision Pro. Vision Pro was launched in February this year. It is only available in the US. The company plans to introduce it in other international markets soon. Recently, Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook had said that the sale of Vision Pro will be started in China this year.

Mark Gurman, Bloomberg’s analyst, said in the Power On newsletter that Apple’s plans for the Vision Pro in the next two years do not include the release of its next version. Earlier, analyst Ming Chi Kuo, who tracks Apple, had also said that manufacturing of Vision Pro 2 will not start before 2027. There are reports that the company has also reduced the orders for Vision Pro.