Re:The iPhone is no longer Apple’s most important product
by criddell on Thursday August 01, 2019 @03:27PM
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Apple dipped their toes into the lower end of the market with the 5C and the fact that they made it look drastically different suggests that Apple agrees with you.
Re:The iPhone is no longer Apple’s most important product
by scarface74 on Thursday August 01, 2019 @10:00PM
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The 5C was never a lower end phone. It was the typical year old phone sold for $100 less. They just put a less expensive case on it.
A $139 Nokia 2.2 looks like a better phone than the refurb iPhone 7 does, just because they designed it to imitate the iPhone X's curved corners and camera notch.
Removable battery and headphone jacks aside, it's probably a worse phone than the iPhone 7 is. But it doesn't look like a worse phone.
When Apple's cheaper used phones catch up to the modern phone design style, I think they'll be more competitive. But that's still years away, and who knows what new phones will look like then.