Ever since past year, we've been proceeding persistent rumors astir Apple moving connected an "all-glass" 20th day iPhone, owed to beryllium launched adjacent year, which is, incidentally, the 20th day of the archetypal iPhone. This mythical instrumentality has taken each kinds of shapes successful the rumor mill - it was all-glass, oregon it had a quad-curved screen. It was besides supposedly devoid of immoderate buttons, possibly adjacent ports. Even the Dynamic Island was gone successful immoderate rumors.
Today a caller rumor from Jefferies expert Edison Lee claims that the all-glass iPhone is dead. Apparently, Apple's proviso concatenation told him that the task was canceled owed to debased yield. This, Lee says, is simply a large setback for Apple's "efforts to bring successful higher-priced iPhones amid soaring representation costs". This is based connected Lee's estimation of the "all-glass" iPhone costing astir $2,000. Where helium got that fig is anyone's guess.
Anyway, the thought isn't far-fetched - that Apple would motorboat a much costly halo iPhone successful bid to thrust up the mean selling terms of its full iPhone portfolio. But past determination already is specified a instrumentality coming, the iPhone Ultra owed to beryllium unveiled adjacent month. Apple whitethorn conscionable privation to beverage that exemplary for a mates of years earlier it introduces yet different caller halo smartphone.
Anyway, Lee besides says Apple would person extended "the all-glass features to aboriginal iPhone Pro and Pro Max models, further raising their mean selling terms and margin", had it gone up with the all-glass iPhone project. Another plausible guess, but that's each it seems to beryllium - a guess. And if the full happening is dead, it doesn't adjacent substance anymore.
English (US) ·