L'iPhone 17 surprend : il devient le smartphone le plus vendu dans plusieurs pays

Did the iPhone 17 surprise you by (comfortably) winning the title of best-selling handset in the world for the April-June 2026 timeframe? Counterpoint Research has some very interesting new data to add to its global smartphone market report from yesterday, this time focusing on the most popular models in a number of major individual countries, and while some victories were pretty easy to anticipate, a few others are likely to completely catch you off guard.

Aux États-Unis, ce n'est pas le iPhone 17 Pro Max qui domine

America's top seller is. not the iPhone 17 Pro Max. The "bigger is better" maxim might feel tailor-made for US consumers, but even though the 6.9-inch iPhone 17 Pro Max got off to an incredibly strong start at the American box-office last fall, the 6.3-inch non-Pro iPhone 17 somehow managed to regionally prevail at the end of this year’s second quarter. This is a slim but very impressive victory for the iPhone 17.

Yes, the iPhone 17 Pro Max was by far the nation’s number one bestseller in September 2025, while the "vanilla" iPhone 17 was barely ranked third, but now the iPhone 17 Pro occupies the last place on the podium and Apple’s largest and most advanced mobile device yet is edged out by a significantly more affordable model. whose sequel is unlikely to come out this year.

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That’s going to make it very interesting to see where the iPhone 17 will be ranked once the 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max are released in just a few weeks, and then of course if the non-Pro iPhone 18 will be able to take over the crown from its predecessor this time next year following an expected spring 2027 launch.

Des résultats surprenants à l'échelle mondiale

The iPhone 17 scores a whopping five (of eight) wins. In case you were wondering how the base iPhone 17 managed to beat its Pro Max sibling in the Q2 2026 global war by a considerably larger margin than the iPhone 16 held over its own big brother this time last year, Counterpoint’s individual national hierarchies provide at least part of the explanation. Apple somehow sold more iPhone 17 units than 17 Pro, 17 Pro Max, and 17e copies combined in Great Britain in Q2 2026.