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Other Will there be a time when Apple just skip a year and not release a new iPhone?
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I don’t think it has anything to do with that. People will buy iPhones every day when they need a new iPhone. Not everyone needs an iPhone at the exact same year and day. If they don’t make a new iPhone in 2021 that doesn’t mean no one will buy a new iPhone in 2021. Macs aren’t upgraded every year but people still buy them. Sure a new model gets people excited but that doesn’t mean they wouldn’t sell without that new model.
New phones have no effect on older models. There’s no radio interference or anything crazy like that caused my new iPhones that affect older ones. Sure the older ones may not have some of the features so people will want to buy a newer model but that’s also the same with cars.
Maybe they are more referring to things ike Apple support or cellular network issues e.g., cellular providers shutting down 3G networks.
In cases like that it would be progress and time that would affect the older phones, rather than new phones themselves somehow making the older ones not work.
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The number of people that notice or care about the notch is a lot smaller than you think. Outside of tech forums, it's a non issue. If you asked an average iPhone user on the street about the notch, they would probably ask you what you were talking about.
That’s well and good. The notch personally doesn’t bother me either. I quite like it as a design element, especially when developers find unique uses for it. (There’s artwork on the App Store for a Spongebob game where the tomato lines up perfectly with the right side of the notch which looks amazing.)
My point is that removing the notch will be the next major design change. After that, there isn’t much they can do with the front side of the device besides continuing to push the display past the bezels. We may not see the notch removed completely until iPhone 20, unless the competition figures out how to create an edge-to-edge design first.
I think there are more people out there waiting for them to remove the notch than it seems like. It’s probably the main complaint brought up in reviews.
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It's pretty much the equivalent of saying "will drug dealers stop selling crack for a year while they amp up supply". That's a really hard no.
If there wasn't "progress and time" there probably wouldn't be (the need for) new phones. Progress, time and the resulting new phones have led to old phones not just becoming obsolete but, in some cases, no longer even being able to work.
This was more Apple OC's issue. Perhaps you can discuss/debate it with them.