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To be honest, I am a little baffled that they haven't already. Around this time last year I wrote about why Apple would use a 960x640 screen in it's 4th iPhone*
by martythemaniak 16y ago
To be honest, I am a little baffled that they haven't already. Around this time last year I wrote about why Apple would use a 960x640 screen in it's 4th iPhone* and I naturally expected a product line split. It would have made perfect sense to have a top-end 4" 960x640 phone and a low-end phone using the old screen, less RAM and other money-saving components.
Perhaps they wanted to hold off another year protecting their high margins, knowing that even in the developed world, a lot of people would have brought the low-end iPhone instead of the high-end one? In any case, it would be interesting to see if this summer they'll introduce a lower-end iPhone or if they'll continue to be an exclusively top-end provider.
*http://martin.drashkov.com/2009/12/iphone-4g-predictions.html http://martin.drashkov.com/2009/12/iphone-4g-predictions.htm...
- dave1619 16y agoI read your blog post from Dec 2009 and your predictions were pretty dead on. Please write another post for your predictions in 2011 for the iPhone and iPad.
- irons 16y agoI naturally expected a product line split. It would have made perfect sense to have a top-end 4" 960x640 phone and a low-end phone using the old screen, less RAM and other money-saving components. Since the 2009 introduction of the iPhone 3GS, when the iPhone 3G went on sale for $99, they've done exactly that. A year later, the 3GS followed it at that price. The downside is that when the 3GS was finally discontinued, it was two years old and had 1/4 the RAM of the then-current iPhone 4, leading to maintenance trouble for the OS and app developers.