JAKARTA – In the midst of price competition for smart phones that has occurred recently, Apple, as an iPhone manufacturer, remains consistently at the highest level. Continue to sell products with quality and relatively expensive prices (high end).
But interestingly, recently the company from the United States was rumored to be selling the iPhone in a cheap version. Quoted from Verge, the news came from a trusted analyst for Apple products, Ming-Chi Kuo.
Ming-Chi Kuo said, Apple will launch two cheap phones (low-end) measuring 6.1 inches and 6.7 inches, with a price that is likely to be no more than US $ 900 or around Rp. 12.7 million in 2022.
Although it actually still seems quite expensive for the Indonesian market, with Apple’s quality, the price is clearly much cheaper than the iPhone 12 Pro Max which is also 6.7 inches in size, for US $ 1,099 or Rp. 15.6 million.
In addition to the two cheap versions of the iPhone, in the leak, it will also launch a high-end version with screen sizes that are also 6.1 inches and 6.7 inches. The iPhone lineup is likely to bear the name iPhone 14. Which is included in the cheap version, fingerprint technology will be embedded under the screen and the quality of the wide camera is up to 48MP.
The presence of the cheap version of the 6.1-inch iPhone is also likely to make Apple no longer produce small-sized smartphones, with 5.4-inch screens, like the iPhone 12 mini which only contributes to 5 percent of overall iPhone product sales.
The decision is believed to have occurred after the company founded by Steve Jobs made a report at the end of last year regarding consumer habits in buying smartphones.
The report shows that many customers are more interested in buying phones with screens larger than six inches. As a result, more consumers are turning to Samsung than Apple to fulfill their need for large smartphones.
Before the launch of the upcoming iPhone 14 series in 2022, in the third quarter of 2021, Apple is rumored to be first launching the iPhone 13. In the iPhone 13, iPhone 13 Mini, iPhone 13 Pro, and iPhone 13 Max series, the date of which is still unknown. Definitely.
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