bennymacca wrote:Wedgie wrote:bennymacca wrote:Corona Man wrote:New phone lobbing on my desk, and its not the IPhone 10.
The iPhone X is awesome. Expensive but I could salary sacrifice it so it wasn’t too bad
Not that I'd ever get an Iphone ever again (can't stand them) but isnt the iPhone X the first phone that Apple will kill off from the previous year since the iPhone 5C?
Not sure what you mean?
Yesterdays paper:
APPLE could cancel its new iPhone X smartphone as soon as winter, according to one top analyst.
The company is supposedly struggling to justify iPhone X production because of poor sales — and may scrap the phone later this year, reports The Sun.
Renowned analyst and Apple expert Ming-Chi Kuo has warned that Apple’s latest iPhone will be in its “end of life” stage in the winter of 2018.
In a note to investors — as seen by AppleInsider — Kuo explains that the iPhone X hasn’t met Apple’s sales predictions, and will be binned shortly.
It would be the first time that Apple has killed off an iPhone from the previous year since the iPhone 5C.
Apple typically keeps older models in stock, to give customers a wider range of choice. For instance, you can still buy the iPhone 6S from the Apple Store, despite it having launched way back in 2015.
But Kuo says that the iPhone X won’t be kept on as a “lower-cost option” for 2019.
Instead, he says that the phone’s features will “migrate” to other models, including the rumour iPhone X Plus.
These features could include the iPhone X’s Face ID facial recognition system, or the large OLED display.
The top analyst expects three new iPhone models to launch in 2018, all of which could benefit from iPhone X tech.
Kuo believes that a big reason why the iPhone X may be struggling is due to demand in China.
Apparently, Chinese customers are disappointed by the amount of usable space on the phone’s display.
It’s all thanks to the infamous “notch” — a small chunk of plastic that sticks out from the top of the screen, designed to house the camera and other sensors.
This gives the iPhone X an oddly shaped screen, and has sparked widespread complaints about the phone.