Start off with a quick read of this Apple Insider post: If iPhone X Demand Is Less Than Expected, Analyst Expects It to Be ‘End of Life’ When Replacements Ship.
From the post, this bit about KGI predicting a quick end-of-life for iPhone X:
KGI also expects a trio of iPhone models in the fall of 2018. He predicts the iPhone X will be “end of life” in the summer of 2018, instead of being retained as a lower-cost option in the following year. If this is the case, it would be the first time that Apple has not retained the previous year’s model to allow for a wide range of iPhones available at many price points.
John Gruber shares some insight on this:
This would not be the first time an iPhone flagship model didn’t stick around for a second year. In 2013, Apple introduced the iPhone 5S to replace the iPhone 5, and also introduced the iPhone 5C to occupy the second pricing tier.
The iPhone X was a relatively giant leap in hardware design. The notch took a lot of heat and it seems a logical speculation that Apple is working hard to shrink the hardware footprint and the notch. And that means a new rev of the iPhone X. Once that happens, it’d seem logical to end-of-life the previous version. If the KGI speculation is true. If.
But my favorite part of Gruber’s post is his takedown of a Newsweek article, with the headline:
Is Apple About to Cancel the iPhone X? Poor Sales Mean Device Faces ‘End of Life’”
This article got a fair amount of traction, but it was based on the Apple Insider article quoted above. Headlines. A sharp, cutting tool, dangerous when used poorly.
Follow the link above to Gruber’s post. A worthy read.
No one knows the future of any product. And, stock analysts give predictions to establish a position on a given stock.
This looks like one of the quickest progressions of tech-rumor-to-doomsaying-by-hearsay I’ve ever seen.
“Poor Sales Mean Device “
Yea, try again. Idiots.
It’s funny, I just assumed the current iPhone X would be one and done. Whatever comes out next year to replace it will probably do so beside an iPhone 9 that replaces the iPhone 8.
We’ll get convergence and an end to the classic iPhone line, but i’d be surprised if it’s in 2018.
“The notch took a lot of heat and it seems a logical speculation that Apple is working hard to shrink the hardware footprint and the notch.”
No, it is not logical for a multitude of reasons:
The notch will stay. Accept it.
In fact, if the front sensor tech comes to iPhone 9 and 9+, the notch will featured in all future iphones. Boohahahahaha!
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Agreed on all counts. Plus, as I have found using it, it helps me to orient the iPhone. Also, I never really noticed it. It is not intrusive in the slightest. Whining for the sake of whining.