I’ll admit it. I was wrong. I was confident it would be the iPhone 5. However, calling this the iPhone 4S we have a new trend to consider.
Looking at this from a mass-market point-of-view, since tech writers and bloggers are outliers, cell phone contracts are two-year commitments and people upgrade their phone every two years. Apple knows this and is updating their phones accordingly. There was the 3G then the 3GS, now there is the 4 and the 4S. If you have the 4, you will not feel bad that you don’t have the 4S, just as those who had the 3G didn’t feel the need to upgrade in the 3GS.
This is a phone designed to get new iPhone customers, not upgrading existing iPhone users. They even made mention in the presentation that they are worried about the entire phone market, not the smartphone market.
My question now is, “Will they skip ahead to the iPhone 6?” It seems odd that they would call the sixth-generation iPhone an iPhone 5. Will they have an iPhone 5 with an A6?
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