Apple's iPhone Air has flopped so hard that it has managed to kill an entire genre of ultra-slim smartphones in utero. That's one way of going out with a bang, I guess.

DigiTimes: Xiaomi, Vivo, and others have halted their plans to take on the iPhone Air with a dedicated competitor

DigiTimes is now reporting that a number of Chinese OEMs, including Xiaomi, Oppo, and Vivo, have shelved their plans to launch their own competitors to the Apple iPhone Air .

For the benefit of those who might not be aware, China only authorized domestic eSIMs recently when Apple launched the iPhone Air as an eSIM-only variant . Now, according to DigiTimes, the Chinese OEMs are trying to exploit the ensuing novelty factor by incorporating eSIMs in a large array of models, instead of solely relying on an u

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