What Sequel for Apple's iPhone X? David Phelan [19659008]the leak yesterday that the current iPhone X and iPhone SE are about to be boxed was a surprise. Gordon Kelly wrote about it here on Forbes.
Gordon was also the first to predict the iPhone X that will be canceled this fall, including more in a moment.
But the real surprise was the fall of the SE iPhone.
But MacRumors has now updated his report and, guess what, Kelly has been throughout this change too.
The original information had come from a BlueFin Research analyst report, which had been picked up by Barron's
Detail of an Apple iPhone SE smartphone , taken on April 10, 2016. (Photo by Neil Godwin / MacLife Magazine via Getty Images)
However, while the original cover suggested that the iPhone SE, the only iPhone with a 4-inch screen left in the Apple's wallet, would be deleted in the coming months, this has now been fixed.
BlueFin Research told MacRumors that Barron had misread the report and in fact it was the iPhone SE 2 rumor was talking, suggesting that Apple will not now produce the legendary second generation version of the iPhone 4 inches, claimed to be a model with integrated Face ID.
Well, that makes a lot more sense. Many people, myself included, really doubted that such a phone is always more than a wild reverie. The point of the SE is not only that it is compact, but that it is more affordable than most iPhones.
He was, when he launched, a powerful handset, thanks to a processor as powerful as his bigger screen siblings, the iPhone 6s and the iPhone 6s Plus. But it lacked other improvements appeared on the 6 such as 3D Touch or a second generation Touch ID sensor.
And that's the point: Apple has cut costs by not putting the latest components, including Face ID, into these. To imagine a SE2 with this capacity seemed harmless to me.
MOSCOW, RUSSIA. APRIL 5, 2016. An Apple iPhone 5se in a re: Store. Artyom Geodakyan / TASS (Photo by Artyom GeodakyanTASS via Getty Images)
Of course, this does not mean that the iPhone SE will stay forever in the lineup. But at least, it seems to be safe for the moment.
Apple behaves so still,
And I would say that there is also a precedent for the other part of the note from BlueFin Research, that the iPhone X could be discontinued this year
Detail of an Apple iPhone X smartphone with a silver finish, taken on October 27, 2017. (Photo by Neil Godwin / T3 Magazine via Getty Images)
When I spoke to the # 39; Apple Phil Schiller executive before the release of the iPhone X, it was clear: "The iPhone 8 is the next generation of what we did with the iPhone 7, taking a lot of new technologies like a better chip, sound system, better cameras.with the iPhone 7, the iPhone 8 is the best, then the iPhone X is something quite different, we we added something upscale that does not look like any iPhone before. "
In other words, Apple was encouraging us to see the iPhone X comm e something separate from the regular sequence.
Well, there is also a recognizable pattern for this development.
Two of the five colors of the Apple iPhone 5C, taken on September 20, 2013. (Photo by Joby Sessions / MacFormat Magazine via Getty Images)
When Apple released the colorful iPhone 5c in September 2013 it was something else from the iPhone 5 or iPhone 5s. The iPhone 5c came out in storage versions of 16 and 32 GB and was dropped exactly one year later.
They have been replaced by a cheaper 8 GB model and, bye-bye, have seen a huge increase in the popularity of 5c. 19659003] But doing the same thing with the iPhone X seems simply inconceivable. The iPhone X is the most premium iPhone of all time and trying to make it cheaper does not really make sense.
The new Apple iPhone X is being marketed at the Apple Store of Omotesando's shopping district in Tokyo, Japan. February 1965 (Photo by Hitoshi Yamada / NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Much better, surely, to introduce a totally different iPhone with facial recognition, but that is more affordable than the iPhone X , but not as expensive as the iPhone SE price. It could have an aluminum frame, for example, instead of shiny stainless steel. Or an LCD screen instead of OLED more expensive. It's more expensive in terms of R & D for Apple, of course, but if it's the first of a series of price-priced iPhones with Face ID, it's a good thing. is better in the long run, right?
It's getting closer to the time while everything will be revealed, but I would say that we should expect that Apple behaves consistently.
Although probably not predictable.
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