Apple's sales of iPhones have boomed since it launched last year its new generation of phones, which carries fifth-generation wireless technology, which was boosted by carrier offers to lure customers to use New technology.

Virgin Communications, AT&T Inc, and T-Mobile America have subsidized huge subsidies over the past year to retain customers and reduce the cost of buying new iPhones until users upgrade to their next generation services. V provided by those companies.

As Apple prepares to showcase its new 5G iPhones on Tuesday, the big question is how long this costly carrier battle to drive iPhone sales will last. .

The latest iPhones - scheduled to be shown at Apple's annual event in September, which will be broadcast live - are expected to be more advanced than revolutionary. Apple keeps the smaller, regular, and larger sizes and comes out with improved camera capabilities.

The forecast paved the way for a less dramatic technology leap than it was last fall, when phones added 5G, the first major update since the iPhone X, released in 2017. and the iPhone 6 in 2014. These new phones helped drive record sales in the 12 months since their launch.

Apple is close to setting a record for iPhone sales during the fiscal year that will end in late September with about 239 million iPhones, an increase of 27% from the previous year, according to Estimates from analysts polled by FactSet.

While Apple no longer releases the number of devices sold, it said iPhone revenue rose 38% in the first nine months of the fiscal year, according to Wall Street Journal, reviewed by Al Arabiya.net.