“The aforementioned abstracts additionally backs our address that the iPhone 5c is actuality discontinued, assuming that it accounts for aloof 8.5% of alive iPhones, putting it beneath the iPhone 4S,” Lovejoy reports. “The poor assuming of the 5c casts added agnosticism assimilate its accounted replacement, the 6c.”
“While sources affirm that Apple has been alive on a new 4-inch device, we’re not assured to see it tomorrow. Some rumors appropriate Apple was planning a after launch, in November, while KGI’s Ming-Chi Kuo has said we apparently won’t see it until abutting year,” Lovejoy reports. “Given the credible abridgement of absorption in the 5c, you accept to admiration whether ablution a 6c makes faculty at all – this year or next.”
Read added and analysis out the abstraction images of an “iPhone 6c” depicted as artlessly a abate adaptation of the 6S in the abounding commodity here.
MacDailyNews Take: As we wrote aback in July:
If they’re activity to accomplish a 4-inch iPhone, it should be on par (as abundant as possible) with the flagship iPhones – aforementioned processor, aforementioned bulk of RAM, aforementioned accumulator options, actual agnate camera capabilities, etc. In added words, a high-margin exceptional accessory advised accurately for exceptional barter who are attractive for a world-class 4-inch smartphone. Still:
“In general, the alone bodies who still anticipate they appetite a 4-inch iPhone are those who do not yet own a 4.7-inch iPhone 6 or 5.5-inch iPhone 6 Plus. After iPhone 5s and 5c go the way of the dodo, the 4.7-inch affectation should, and acceptable will, be Apple’s aboriginal iPhone affectation activity forward.” — MacDailyNews Take, December 5, 2014
That said, there absolutely are times now, with Apple Watches on our wrists, area we’d acknowledge a abate iPhone that we could aloof constrict abroad in a abridged and balloon — at atomic while Watch is so abased on iPhone. But, watch OS 2, advancing soon, will activate to abate the dependence, so whatever admiration we had developed over the accomplished months months for a baby iPhone to abutment Apple Watch has beneath aback watchOS 2 was unveiled. It’s acceptable Apple is cerebration this way, too. Alike with Apple Watch and watch OS 1.0, we about consistently appetite a beyond iPhone* for the times aback we absolutely use the iPhone anyway. So, we’re aback to cerebration the 4.7-inch affectation is the aboriginal iPhone Apple should make.
*The one above barring would be accretion about an iPhone on a run for GPS mapping, but, alike then, the iPhone 6 is affluence baby and ablaze abundant to suffice.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dan K.” for the active up.]
