“Apple may launch the iPhone 7 this September, a year ahead of its expected arrival date, according to an industry analyst. As a result, the iPhone 6S model name would never see the light of day,” The Week reports.
“If the company followed its usual launch schedule, last year’s iPhone 6 would be followed by an iPhone 6S this year,” The Week reports. “But Ming-Chi Kuo, an analyst at KGI Securities, says the new phone will introduce significant new features – prompting Apple to break with convention and call it the iPhone 7.”
“According to Kuo, whom MacRumors says ‘has a respectable track record at reporting on Apple’s upcoming plans,’ Apple will introduce Force Touch – a technology it developed for the Apple Watch – on this year’s new iPhone, and then update it in 2016,” The Week reports.
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MacDailyNews Take: We’ve never liked the “S” moniker and always felt that it shortchanged those iPhone models and the innovations they delivered.