Era of iPhone ‘super cycles’ is gone, even for 5G: opinion


  • TECH
  • Monday, 09 Sep 2019

Nikkei and Bloomberg News were the latest news outlets to report that Apple may introduce a cheaper iPhone in the first half of next year, but reaching the newly Internet-connected is not in Apple’s wheelhouse. — Bloomberg

"Super cycle” predictions are back. Kind of.

In 2016 and 2017, some technologists and stock analysts said Apple Inc’s 10th anniversary iPhone line would produce something like the sales surge from the first larger-screen iPhone 6 models that came out in 2014.

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