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Originally Posted by EyeGuy
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Cuthbertson’s only source is AppleInsider’s summary of Ming-Chi Kuo’s report — and he’s drawing conclusions that simply weren’t in the original. Cuthbertson is laying out a scenario where Apple stops selling the iPhone X this summer, months before new models are announced in September. That would indeed be a sensational — downright humiliating — setback for Apple. But there’s no way that’s going to happen, and it’s also not what AppleInsider says Kuo expects. What Kuo said is that Apple might stop producing new iPhone X units once they’ve made enough to keep shelves stocked until September. Kuo does suggest that this might be because sales of the iPhone X are disappointing (particularly in China), but Kuo’s record is only good regarding what is going on in Apple’s Asian supply chain, not why. If Kuo is correct that the iPhone X will be dropped from next year’s iPhone lineup, I don’t think the reason has anything to do with how well it sold.
Also, even if it’s true that Apple will “only” sell 18 million iPhone X units in the first calendar quarter of 2018, you have to put that in context with the fact that the iPhone X debuted alongside the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus, which had the features, design, and prices of what in any previous year would have been the top-tier new iPhones.
Everything about Cuthbertson’s report — starting with that headline, which arguably is all that matters for a publication like today’s Newsweek, which is, I would bet, hopelessly dependent upon social media traffic and utterly disdainful of the notion of building up a wellspring of trust with a devoted readership — seems written to paint a picture of the iPhone X being a sales failure, facts be damned, and nothing about it — not a single sentence — seems geared toward giving the reader an accurate, genuine understanding of what’s actually going on with sales of the current iPhone lineup.
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Aka... you feel for a click bait "article"
That said, this would also not be the first time, were it true:
iPhone 1 got discontinued after the first year. Must have been a flop :P
(when the 3G went on sale, you could no longer buy the 1)
iPhone 5 got replaced after the first year.
(when the 5S went on sale, the next tier down was the 5C-- not the 5)
Nor should it be surprising that Apple would need to make design changes to get the X feature set to the lower price point of normal iPhones. They stated at launch that the X is what the iPhone of the future will be-- but clearly they need to get that price point down to a place the (high end of the) masses can afford.