Apple maybe working on the cheaper iPhone for late-2013 launch

Apple is implementing a cheaper iPhone that might be launched by late-2013, WSJ claimed moments ago.i think that it would be incredibly unlike Apple to launch a “cheap” product but this may be one of the key transitions in philosophy beneath Tim Cook’s regime.

While the iPhone is a huge runaway success for the Cupertino-based company, its sales happen to be dwarfed by Samsung, which also became the world’s larget smartphone vendor a year ago. Samsung sold 500 telephones every minute in 2012 possesses been estimated to sell as much as 390 million smartphones this coming year and a total involving 510 million phones in most.

Apple has avoided releasing a cheaper version on the iPhone and has always cut the expense of its older generation iPhones that become the entry-level iPhone. At the minute, Apple sells the iphone 4 and iPhone 4S along with the iPhone 5. However, that strategy doesn't work in emerging markets where carriers do not subsidize phones. While you'll be able to get an iPhone for free on a two-year contract in The usa and Europe, the strategy fails in countries such as India, where a user has to pay up to Rs 26, 500 with the iPhone 4, which is really a two-year old product. Compared, users can buy the latest Galaxy S III from Samsung cheaper than Rs 32, 000 when the iPhone 4S costs up to Rs 38, 500.

Analysts happen to be talking about the importance of a cheaper iPhone regarding countries where carrier subsidies do not work and probably it offers dawned on Cook & Co when it wants to dominate the space it would have simply no option but to launch multiple variants on the iPhone. It has been rumored before that Apple might minimize the iPhone launch circuit from 12 months to six months. Other rumors have proposed that Apple could launch new iPhones with diverse screen sizes.


But things have surely changed under Cook as Apple announced the iPad mini – an inferior, affordable variant of the iPad – late a year ago that has been shown to be a success in the market industry. But this goes towards Apple under Steve Jobs that prioritized profit margins over sales volumes. As the saying goes, it is never around till the fat lady sings and however we would have to await till Tim Cook officially announces the item.