{"id":182805,"date":"2026-01-29T17:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T22:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/29\/apples-iphone-sales-surge-to-new-quarterly-high-despite-early-missteps-in-artificial-intelligence-wral-com\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T17:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T22:05:08","slug":"apples-iphone-sales-surge-to-new-quarterly-high-despite-early-missteps-in-artificial-intelligence-wral-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/29\/apples-iphone-sales-surge-to-new-quarterly-high-despite-early-missteps-in-artificial-intelligence-wral-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple&#8217;s iPhone sales surge to new quarterly high despite early missteps in artificial intelligence :: WRAL.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/ap\/d977c-apples-iphone-sales-surge-to-new-quarterly-high-despite-early-missteps-in-artificial-intelligence\/\">Apple&#8217;s iPhone sales surge to new quarterly high despite early missteps in artificial intelligence :: WRAL.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/ap\/d977c-apples-iphone-sales-surge-to-new-quarterly-high-despite-early-missteps-in-artificial-intelligence\/\">https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/ap\/d977c-apples-iphone-sales-surge-to-new-quarterly-high-despite-early-missteps-in-artificial-intelligence\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-29 17:02:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.wral.com\">www.wral.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Apple\u2019s iPhone sales reached a new quarterly record during the holiday season, driven by strong demand for the iPhone 17 models.<\/li>\n<li>Despite not delivering on its 2024 promise to enhance Siri\u2019s AI capabilities, Apple released a &#8220;liquid glass&#8221; design update and a free software upgrade in September to offset AI miscues.<\/li>\n<li>The quarter saw iPhone sales of $85.3 billion, a 23% increase from the previous year, marking the highest sales for a three-month period since the iPhone\u2019s 2007 debut.<\/li>\n<li>Apple\u2019s profit rose 16% to $42.1 billion, with total revenue increasing to $143.8 billion, both exceeding analyst projections.<\/li>\n<li>Despite positive results, Apple\u2019s stock price remains slightly down for the year compared to the end of 2024.<\/li>\n<li>Apple plans to sustain growth by finally launching delayed AI features, notably an upgraded Siri, with the help of Google\u2019s AI model, Gemini 3.<\/li>\n<li>The iPhone maintained its market leadership with nearly 20% share, slightly ahead of Samsung, as the worldwide sales leader at the end of last year, according to the International Data Corp.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple&#8217;s iPhone sales surge to new quarterly high despite early missteps in artificial intelligence ::&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":182806,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.wral.com\/ee6029ca-00b4-5aaa-8267-bd386eca555a?w=1200&h=630","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-182805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182805"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182807,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182805\/revisions\/182807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}