{"id":355767,"date":"2025-06-04T10:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T05:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/?p=355767"},"modified":"2025-06-04T10:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T05:23:08","slug":"iphone-16e-enters-europes-top-10-in-first-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/iphone-16e-enters-europes-top-10-in-first-month\/","title":{"rendered":"iPhone 16e Enters Europe\u2019s Top 10 in First Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><i>Apple\u2019s latest mid-tier offering iPhone 16e was the ninth best-selling smartphone in Europe in its first full month of sales, accounting for 8% of Apple\u2019s sales and 2% of total smartphone sales in March 2025.<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>The model sold even better in Western Europe, where it reached seventh position.<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>However, initial sales were not as strong as Apple\u2019s previous mid-tier offerings, the iPhone SE 2022 and iPhone SE 2020, both of which accounted for a greater proportion of sales and took higher spots in Europe\u2019s bestseller list.<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>The relatively high price of the iPhone 16e, coupled with a general market slowdown and expanded availability of refurbished iPhones in Europe, has muted its performance in the region.<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Apple\u2019s iPhone 16e, launched at the end of February 2025, went straight onto Europe\u2019s best-selling smartphones list in its first full month of sales. According to Counterpoint Research data, the iPhone 16e was the ninth best-selling smartphone in Europe, accounting for 8% of Apple\u2019s sales and 2% of total smartphone sales in March 2025. The model sold even better in Western Europe, where it reached seventh position.<\/p>\n<p>However, sales decreased significantly compared to Apple\u2019s previous mid-tier offerings. In the first full month of sales, the iPhone 16e was 17% down on the iPhone SE 2022 and 20% down on the SE 2020. The iPhone SE 2022 and iPhone SE 2020 also accounted for a larger proportion of Apple\u2019s sales in the first month (12% and 19% respectively), compared to 8% for the iPhone 16e. They also featured higher on Europe\u2019s bestseller list (sixth and third respectively).<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.counterpointresearch.com\/_File\/ckeditor\/20256224718_W5tnV_editor_image.png\" width=\"635\" height=\"328\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Associate Director<\/strong> <strong>Jan Stryjak<\/strong> said, \u201cThe relatively high price of the iPhone 16e compared to previous iPhone SE devices has limited sales in Europe. At \u20ac699 ($599), the 16e is a significant jump from the \u20ac519 ($429) launch price of the iPhone SE 2022 and \u20ac479 ($399) for the iPhone SE 2020, which has reduced its appeal in this challenging economic climate. Also, some places are offering the iPhone 15 for the same price as the iPhone 16e, so many consumers are opting for arguably the better-specced, albeit nearly two-year-old, device. As such, the iPhone 15 also featured in Europe\u2019s top-10 list for April.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple\u2019s latest mid-tier offering iPhone 16e was the ninth best-selling smartphone in Europe in its first full month of sales, accounting for 8% of Apple\u2019s sales and 2% of total smartphone sales in March 2025. The model sold even better in Western Europe, where it reached seventh position. However, initial sales were not as strong [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-355767","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gadgets-and-apps"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}