![]() “What makes the iPhone and perhaps Apple special is that it seems to deliver things that nobody asks for but then everybody wants while eschewing overshooting a performance dimension that a few demand but most won’t use.”Ĭheck out the blog post for more on Dediu’s thoughts on why the iPhone 13 is just so important for the future of the smartphone market. Things like rack focus, adjustable focus on already recorded videos and so on will be picked up by YouTubers, TikTokers and other influencers, which in turn will shift the perception of what features a modern smartphone should have. The camera upgrades to the 13-series in particular will be highly influential, predicts the analyst. ![]() This pushes the iPhone 14 (which would remain on sale) to 599. So, how is the iPhone 13 the most important launch? Dediu argues that it is because Apple continues to be an innovator – it creates trends rather than following them. The obvious move would be to drop the iPhone 15 Plus by 100 to 799, forcing the iPhone 15 to drop to 699. ![]() Price drops for Apple and Samsung phones across 2019 The prices are much more sporadic and the final value of the phone tends to be further apart from its original selling price. Available right now, the iPhone 13 starts at 699 for 128GB of storage (up from a meager 64GB on the iPhone 12), and that goes up to 799 for 256GB and 999. On the right is the same but for Samsung phones. Newer iPhones drift to the right, showing the growing starting cost of the top end model, but also spread out as Apple introduced more and more versions. This next chart shows the price of new iPhones (grouped by launch date) and how much that price fell in 2019. Hardware and software work together to get the most out of your battery. iPhone 11 is water resistant up to 2 meters for up to 30 minutes double the depth of iPhone XR.1. You could get a lot more by selling the phone to someone else. Front glass and back glass are strengthened through a dual ionexchange process. Apple is accepting trade-ins as old as the iPhone 6s, though you won’t get a huge discount for those older models. Of course these are the prices of new units, the second hand market for old iPhones is bigger than any other smartphone series. The evolution of iPhone prices since the beginning It starts simple but keeps branching over the years (it includes older models that were kept around with a discount). This is not accounting for sales taxes and carrier promos, which make things even more convoluted.Ĭheck out this pricing chart that tracks the prices of iPhone models over the years. The current iPhone line-up is bigger and more convoluted than ever, it spans from $400 to $1,600 across a variety of models and storage options. If its true that the iPhone 14 Plus is laying an egg, Apple could scale back its lineup to just three models the iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max. It’s not the prices that make the iPhones so important, of course, but they are fascinating, so let’s start with them. Analyst Horace Dediu argues that the iPhone 13 series is “the most important iPhone ever” and has some interesting charts to share that show the evolution of iPhone prices over the years.
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