According to South Korean ETNews reported that Apple iPhone 5 will be discontinued in the fall of 2013, for the upcoming iPhone 5S and affordable version of the iPhone to give way, in addition to outside the iPhone 5, iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S are likely to follow, but this completely out of the market by replaced by new models.
Tim Cook at Apple's second quarter earnings conference that, iPhone 5 is Apple's best-selling smartphone by far, accounting for 50% of total sales iPhone. As the next generation iPhone will use In-Cell technology, touch screen, using such technologies will be thinner screen, but not suitable for small batch production, the production capacity is limited due to the screen, Apple had to stop production of iPhone 5, fully supports iPhone 5S production.After the listing of the new iPhone, iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S may be completely out of the market, these two products are not supported by Apple's latest Lightning port, once the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S under the city, Lightning port will become the standard interface of Apple products, Prior to the 30-Pin interface will be deprecated.
Give up on efforts to push the new generation of products, which consistently violate Apple's previous product line, usually Apple will also produce two generations of the best-selling smart phone, the current flagship high-end market, iPhone 5, iPhone 4S and the contract version of the iPhone 4 in the emerging marketing, these two generations of products in China, India and other markets are still very popular, according to Consumer Intelligence Research Partners data show that in June 2013 in Apple iPhone 5 mobile phone sales accounted for 52%, iPhone 4S and iPhone 4 accounted for 30% and 18%, once these products are discontinued from the market, Apple's products will empty out a gap, and make up this gap is a cheap version of the iPhone.
