“With the rollout of the iPhone SE, it’s clear Apple is no longer beholden to its old iPhone release schedule of ‘new models only in the fall, older models rolling off the price list in 2 years,'” Mark Rogowsky reports for Forbes.
“But if Apple’s top Wall Street analyst Ming-Chi Kuo is to be believed, the company is set to make an even bigger break with past behavior come this fall,” Rogowsky reports. “The KGI Securities analyst, in a report obtained by MacRumors, suggests Apple is going to launch a massive overhaul of the iPhone with a 5.8-inch OLED screen and a curved glass front and back.”
“But that overhaul won’t come until 2017, while 2016′s iPhone 7 will be substantially similar to the current design,” Rogowsky reports. “Sorting out all the rumors, this means this fall’s model would deviate from a pattern that iPhone has followed for the past 6 years.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Apple is certainly capable of major iPhone releases on an annual basis.