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The iPhone Air Isn’t Selling

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🗓️ 11 November 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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The iPhone Air isn’t selling, and it isn’t selling to the degree that Apple is delaying the next version. Yan LeCun is gonna strike out on his own. The big illegal streaming site takedown you might not have hear about. And Facebook doesn’t like likes anymore, at least not external likes. Apple Delays Release of Next iPhone Air Amid Weak Sales (The Information) Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun plans to exit and launch own start-up (FT) SoftBank sells Nvidia stake for $5.8bn as it prepares for AI investments (FT) Anthropic Is on Track to Turn a Profit Much Faster Than OpenAI (WSJ) Streameast: How the authorities took down the world’s largest illegal sports streaming platform (The Athletic) Meta is killing off the external Facebook Like button (Engadget) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the TechBoo Ride Home for Tuesday, November 11th, 2025. I'm Brian McCullough. Today, the iPhone Air isn't selling, and it isn't selling to the degree that Apple is delaying the next version.

0:14.3

Jan LeCoon is going to strike out on his own. The big illegal streaming site take down you might not have heard about.

0:19.7

And Facebook doesn't like

0:20.9

likes anymore, at least not external likes.

0:23.6

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0:59.0

The information is reporting that Apple is delaying the next iPhone air, originally set for

1:04.6

fall of 2026. After the first model, apparently has been selling below expectations, and a portion of inventory remains

1:12.4

unsold. I had seen stories about the air selling poorly, so I guess this confirms those rumors.

1:18.8

Quote, Foxcon, one of two companies that assembles the iPhone Air for Apple, has dismantled

1:23.6

all but one and a half of its production lines for the first version and expects to halt all

1:28.2

production by the end of the month, according to a person with direct knowledge of the situation.

1:32.9

Luxshare, the other company that assembles the device, halted all production at the end of

1:37.2

October, according to people with direct knowledge of the developments. In contrast, Foxconn and

1:41.8

Luxshare have dedicated dozens of production lines to top-selling models like the iPhone 17 Pro.

1:47.5

The failure of the iPhone air to sell well is the latest demonstration of Apple's struggle to come up with a new variant of the iPhone that is popular with consumers.

1:56.7

Apple experimented with a cheaper iPhone with a smaller display known as the iPhone Mini in 2020,

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