India has been always considered to be one of the greatest markets for Apple’s iPhone series but now the company has been struggling in pushing enough units. The existing generation models, like the iPhone XR, iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max, arrive at a high premium which discourages numerous potential buyers from investing in these phones.
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- Apple has discontinued some of the older iPhone models in the Indian market.
- The models that meet their end include 2016’s iPhone SE, 2014’s iPhone 6, and 2015’s iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus.
- The cheapest iPhone that you can buy now is 2016’s iPhone 7 that starts at almost Rs 40,000 in India.
Mostly, the buyers opt for the older but cheaper models and Apple on the other hand has been favourably pushing out very old iPhone 6 as well as iPhone 6s series models.
On the other hand, newer Android phones at these same price ranges are now overtaking the old iPhones. After this, Apple has finally decided to create a daring move by pushing a break on the older iPhone models.
As per to a new report from The Economic Times, Apple has finally stopped the production of some of the older models. The models of Apple’s iPhone whose production are now ended comprised of 2016’s iPhone SE, 2014’s iPhone 6, as well as 2015’s iPhone 6s along with iPhone 6s Plus. As these models are out so now the cheapest iPhone that you can purchase is 2016’s iPhone 7 that begins at almost Rs 40,000 in India.
Now, the iPhone 6 has been on sale for an extended time in India as the forthcoming iOS 13 won’t be supportive to this generation of the iPhone. A few months before, Apple has also stopped the production of iPhone SE as it desired to move the attention on higher-end models.
On the other hand, the iPhone 6s generation is currently on its last software support cycle and it is expected that after iOS 13, the probabilities are these old models won’t be getting any support.
The iPhone 7 is going to be the only inexpensive phone proposing two more software updates. In addition, the iPhone 6s from the year 2015 is pretty old now and now you can find better options at the same price range from the Android universe. with superior hardware features.
The elimination of older and cheaper models is likely to increase the average prices in that way it will result in more profit. Apple is also believed to start the production of the iPhone XR as well as iPhone XS models in the Indian market very soon.
The iPhone 6s is still on sale on the Amazon and these may possibly be the left behind extra units that Apple didn’t accomplish to sell. Right now, the iPhone 6s is the only iPhone to feature a 3.5mm headphone jack as well as it debuted with Apple’s 3D Touch. This is considered to be much-needed change for Apple in a market especially like India where its Android rivals are also posting better numbers than ever before.
