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The continued availability of the last two years' iPhone models has been common practice since the iPhone 3GS remained on sale alongside the iPhone 4S. The fact
by gilgoomesh 9y ago
The continued availability of the last two years' iPhone models has been common practice since the iPhone 3GS remained on sale alongside the iPhone 4S. The fact that the iPhone 6S is still available now has at least 6 years of precedent. I think the article is more than a little off base in searching for another explanation here.
The oddities this time are that the iPhone 8 isn't called the iPhone 7s (even though that's what it so obviously is) and Apple's also announced (but hasn't yet released) the iPhone X.
- internet2000 9y agoIt's pretty curious he picked the headphones jack of all things to justify the 6s still being on sale, when the most plausible reason is the one you just mentioned, keeping older devices available for cheaper. The author could've selected screen sizes as the premise for Apple offering more choices than before, and the article could've been kept mostly unchanged. Mentioning the headphones jack is just fitting the data to what he wants it to mean.
- loeber 9y ago"Keeping older devices available for cheaper" does not quite solve the issue, because Apple is also currently selling the iPhone SE. Both the SE and the 6s are down-market, legacy devices. In my view, there shouldn't be more than one down-market, legacy device.
- glenra 9y ago> The oddities this time are that the iPhone 8 isn't called the iPhone 7s (even though that's what it so obviously is) The "s" generations always physically looked exactly like the prior non-s. They would keep the same exterior design while improving stuff under the hood. But the 8 needed a glass-back design to better enable new charging methods. Thus, it is identifiably a different phone than the 7, which makes it obviously not a 7s.