
The iPhone 6 release date is tied to that of accompanying system
software iOS 7 which is swimming around in beta-test circles already and
will arrive in the fall if not sooner, unless Apple cops out by
releasing an iPhone 5S this year and holds back the iPhone 6 for next
year. Precedent says Apple will release a 5S model before the 6, as it
did the same with the 4S before the 5. But the circumstances of the
smartphone landscape are changing, Apple’s release date cycle is
shifting, and the company is showing a more aggressive posture toward
the market in general of late.
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Apple has released an S model a year after each of its last two major
iPhone models, with only the iPhone 2 directly following the iPhone 1.
But while the S models have come to be accepted by customers as an
intentional strategy on the part of Apple, its history instead shows
that S models like the 3GS and 4S have only showed up when the next
generation iPhone wasn’t ready yet. Mere contingency plans, models like
the iPhone 5S shouldn’t happen unless the new iPhone 6 is simply not
ready for launch and Apple needs to buy time. The reason the iPhone 5
looked so much like the 4S and 4 is that there never was supposed to
have been a 4S. Now that styling has grown stale, and there’s nothing to
indicate that Apple’s iPhone 6 plans are behind schedule. That gives it
a release date in the fall of this year alongside iOS 7.
The one caveat is if Apple wants to take another shot at the iPhone 5
era by delivering an iPhone 5S with varying screen sizes and colors,
which would still feel like a cop out. But even then, it could do so
while also delivering a new flagship iPhone 6 which offers the same,
giving both the iPhone 6 and iPhone 5S the same fall release date.
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