{"id":632320,"date":"2026-09-30T17:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T17:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/632320\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T17:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T17:38:08","slug":"iphone-duo-expected-to-sell-6m-units-by-end-of-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/632320\/","title":{"rendered":"iPhone Duo expected to sell 6M units by end of 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apple will sell approximately 6 million units of the iPhone Duo<\/a> in 2026, according to analysts’ forecast, which may be more promising than it first appears. <\/p>\n

The iPhone Duo has yet to go on sale<\/a>, but that hasn’t stopped analysts from declaring what they believe the sales will be for the foldable model. In the case of one forecast from Counterpoint Research, that figure may seem to be a disappointment at first glance. <\/p>\n

Apple could sell around 6 million units in 2026, Counterpoint told<\/a> Bloomberg. Analyst Ivan Lam says that the final figure will depend on how well Apple ramps up production for the new model. <\/p>\n

The production woes<\/a> of the iPhone Duo were prominent in pre-launch rumors, but they have persisted. In a Tuesday report, Foxconn’s assembly yield is allegedly just above 60%, with it unlikely to reach Apple’s high standards for six months to a year. <\/p>\n

A deceptively low number<\/p>\n

It’s fair to say that 6 million units isn’t a massive amount on the Apple manufacturing scale. Far from it. <\/p>\n

When it comes to the main iPhone<\/a> lineup, Apple is predicted to be making approximately 80 million<\/a> iPhones in total between Q4 2026 and Q1 2027. That six-month period incorporates the iPhone 18<\/a> Pro and Pro Max as well as the iPhone Duo, with the non-foldable models making up the lion’s share. <\/p>\n

The 6 million figure is for sales of the iPhone Duo in the last months of 2026, a shorter timeframe from the six-month overall production forecast. <\/p>\n

While only a small segment of Apple’s overall product mix, it’s still a lot of units. To Counterpoint, 6 million units is closer to what you’d expect a production run of a foldable smartphone would have, rather than for an iPhone. <\/p>\n

Even at this lower level, the iPhone Duo is expected to help increase interest and sales in foldable devices, including for its rivals. There’s also the benefit of extra interest<\/a> in Apple’s mainstream iPhone lineup too just from the existence of the foldable model. <\/p>\n

Considering the production line immaturity and the scale of sales forecasts relative to the rest of the folding smartphone market, the iPhone Duo doesn’t seem to have a particularly bad future ahead of it. Production issues can usually be fixed and improved upon with time. <\/p>\n

Think of it as the typical teething issues of a first-gen Apple product. The initial launch is to raise awareness and to shake out the problems, before coming in with an improved second version in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple will sell approximately 6 million units of the iPhone Duo in 2026, according to analysts’ forecast, which…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[85,46,321,125],"class_list":["post-632320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-mobile","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}