With new iPhones releasing soon amid a pandemic, there's a question of whether consumers are as excited as in previous years.
Dan Ives, an analyst with Wedbush Securities contends that the release of the devices believed to be called iPhone 12 is a"once in a decade" upgrade opportunity for Apple that will be its biggest seller since 2014's iPhone 6, the first of the modern iPhones to have a larger LCD screen.
Ives admits that 5G currently is in its early stages, with speeds that aren't much faster than the current 4G but that he expects that to change in the next 12 to 18 months. Apple iPhone sales peaked in 2014 with sales of 231 million units, the year iPhone 6 was introduced, says Ives.in its most recent earnings report, when it announced that after several quarters of declining iPhone sales, that sales were up, even during a pandemic, as consumers turned to tools for working from home, like the iPhone, iPad and Macintosh computers.is one of those who has to get the new iPhone 12, sight unseen.
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