{"id":228162,"date":"2025-01-30T22:50:17","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T22:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/30\/apple-iphone-sales-dip-despite-ai-rollout\/"},"modified":"2025-01-30T22:50:17","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T22:50:17","slug":"apple-iphone-sales-dip-despite-ai-rollout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/30\/apple-iphone-sales-dip-despite-ai-rollout\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple iPhone sales dip despite AI rollout"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/686e\/live\/602b6ef0-df58-11ef-88f5-9fd60bc5cfdc.jpg?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Apple iPhone sales dip despite AI rollout\" title=\"Apple iPhone sales dip despite AI rollout\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Sales of Apple iPhones dropped the end of last year, as the tech firm&#8217;s roll out of new artificial intelligence (AI) features was met with a lukewarm response.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Chief executive Tim Cook said the new features helped to drive stronger sales in the countries where they were available, such as the US.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">But iPhone sales slipped about 1% overall compared with last year, to $69.1bn (\u00a355bn).<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The company is also contending with other challenges, including a sales slowdown in China and the possibility its US sales will be by President Donald Trump&#8217;s tariffs.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Apple has been gradually introducing AI features to its products, starting last year in the US. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Investors have been hoping this will re-ignite sales, which have slowed as customers hold onto their phones and other products for longer. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Mr Cook said Apple had seen a record number of purchases of new iPhones from people who already own older iPhones.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The company said overall sales rose 4% to $124.3bn, lifted by a jump in its computer sales and strong growth in its services business, which includes Apple TV, Apple News and Apple Pay. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Profits rose 7% year-on-year to $36.3bn.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cn57l2nreglo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sales of Apple iPhones dropped the end of last year, as the tech firm&#8217;s roll out of new artificial intelligence (AI) features was met with a lukewarm response. Chief executive Tim Cook said the new features helped to drive stronger sales in the countries where they were available, such as the US. But iPhone sales [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/686e\/live\/602b6ef0-df58-11ef-88f5-9fd60bc5cfdc.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[604],"tags":[828,11395,826,20394,2022],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228162"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228164,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228162\/revisions\/228164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}