Price drops? 🤣 That was a good one …. 👍Wait, does this mean Apple will discontinue the whole iPhone 12 lineup? Will this also mean that there's no price drops across the whole lineup? Basically the same price points as today, and just replace the 12 series with 13 series? Well bummer.
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Apple Labels iPhone 12 As 'Legacy' Device, Lists Four Unreleased iPhones in New MagSafe Charger FCC Filing
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When the Xs was released, Apple also released the XR and reduce the prices of the 8.
Wondering what Apple will do for the 13. I'm guessing nothing will be price dropped (thus hoping for a storage bump for all base models, ie. all iPhones will start at 128GB, but prices are the same).
If Apple wanted to keep the trend of price drop of the lineup like in the past, that means the 13 mini and regular 13 might get a reduced launch price., going back to the original 11 launch price. SE remains the same, XR is out, 11 becomes $499, 13 mini starts at $599, regular 13 at $699. But my guess is storage will remain at 64GB base.
The legacy label is to push people to buy the iPhone 13. Disgusting behavior…
The label means absolutely nothing. If someone wanted the 13, they were going to get it regardless of what the 12 was called.
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That’s the reason, the isn’t going to be much of a difference between the 12 and 13 and would eat into sales.
Any chance the updated MagSafe Chargers will now do data transfer, getting one step closer to a port-less iphone?
You know, every year the iPhone gets two times faster and five times as awesome and three times as I can't live without getting the newest one, but I feel like it hasn't done anything "new" since its introduction. What's next, I wonder.
It is a label in a FCC document. Not meant to be seen by most customer. Is not like in the website they just added a section for “legacy devices”.
Just keep using whatever phone works for you. I still use my iPhone 11 Pro Max and hace no problem with whatever Apple wants to label it.
Just keep using whatever phone works for you. I still use my iPhone 11 Pro Max and hace no problem with whatever Apple wants to label it.
That would be my idea of this. If the label is 'early', it could be that Apple is trying to cast shade on their older products, but if they make an 11-ish 'cheap model', they will be committing rank hypocrisy.
Personally, I'd rather see Apple do a whole model range of new iPhones, with each successive 'better' model having some 'must have' feature, rather than having them resurrect an older model, and call it new. But that's just me.
For legacy legacy legacy owners, rock on! I had a hard time giving up my 10X Max. It was pretty awesome, except for the camera, but I still filled up the memory anyway.
But we'll see...
XR will be long gone once the iPhone 13 arrives, the 11 will stay in the line up.
The iPhone 12 is significantly better for my brain than the X,XR, or 11 pro was -Those hurt a lot. The 12 PWM is somehow more tolerable for me.
edit: I meant XS, not XR. Who can keep track of all these iPhones with their silly names anymore?
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Seems the only way to make it that much better, they need to make if implantable. I'm sure we are many years (thankfully) away from that happening.
Too expensive, and still, surprisingly, spotty coverage. In buildings, etc... Plus the antenna would be something to deal with, and Apple wants it to be 'sexy', and 'skinny', and sat phones are neither. Swapping frequencies would be necessary, and I don't know how easily that could happen. And would anyone want to pay for Apple Music streaming over satellite? The latency and dropouts would be epidemic, and frustrating, coupled with cost, and the old adage 'be careful what you wish for' pops to mind.
This year's lineup will be as follows:
iPhone SE
iPhone 11
iPhone 13 mini
iPhone 13
iPhone 13 Pro
iPhone 13 Pro Max
iPhone SE
iPhone 11
iPhone 13 mini
iPhone 13
iPhone 13 Pro
iPhone 13 Pro Max
I guess my iPhone X (10) is very legacy now. It often gets so slow the thing becomes unresponsive. Apple definitely makes your phone go slower over time. Their software updates introduce features made to slow down old phones. It's really quite annoying.
it also makes the previous generation 50% slower.
Cupertino's logic "Do people really want to own a 'legacy' device? No! They want teh shiny new gadget and we want the $$!"
Do you think this would increase the value of the 12 series in the used marketplace? Can’t decide whether this would increase the value or decrease it…
based upon the other analogies, my iPhone 7+ must have already turned to oil.