Just as parents? actions affect their children eventually, the foibles swirling around the iPhone 5 and its funky release date in 2011 is already having an impact on the iPhone 6 despite the latter not surfacing until 2012. That hand-me-down pattern of influence the?iPhone 5 aberrations are already having on the future generation range from when the latter will surface to which carriers it?ll supportand more.
The iPhone 5 is the first iPhone not to surface in the middle of summer, with its expected September release date giving the current iPhone 4 a nearly fifteen month lifespan. The iPhone 5 either sticks with the autumn-ish timeframe and surfaces in September 2012, or it pops up next summer after a mere nine months of the iPhone 5 being on the market. The latter seems unlikely unless the iPhone 5 unexpectedly turns out to be a mere minor update over the iPhone 4. So we?re probably looking at the iPhone 6 not arriving until fourteen months from now. That?s a long haul for those iPhone 4 users who had been planning to skip the iPhone 5 for budget or contractual reasons, and they may now reconsider.Other Business News:Dell latitude d620 batteryDell vostro 1510 batteryHP Pavilion DM4 batteryThen there?s the thorny mess surrounding the AT&T ? T-Mobile merger. Apple already has the iPhone 5 lined up to launch on Verizon with the same release date as AT&T, and Apple can cut a separate iPhone 5 deal with Sprint any time it wants (for all we know, it already has). But any deal with T-Mobile would need to unofficially run through AT&T, which is in the long process of attempting to gain regulatory approval for the merger followed by the even longer process of merging the two carriers into a single mobile network and a single administrative business. Or as Beatweek reader Dave puts it, ?If and by the time the merger goes through, it will affect the iPhone 6 more than the iPhone 5.? So does Apple go and do an iPhone 5 deal with T-Mobile now, or does it wait until some unspecified point in the future in which T-Mobile gains a future iPhone through AT&T by default? Stay tuned. And then there are the procedural issues. Will the delay of the iPhone 5 allow it to become the first 4G enabled iPhone, snapping up that title from the iPhone 6? With iOS 5 now surfacing in the fall, Apple must decide whether iOS 6 and future versions will also be fall releases, which ties into whether the iPhone 6 shifts back to the summer or keeps with the fall. If it?s the latter, there?s the question of what Apple will now introduce each summer, with that spot having been vacated. The iPad is a spring baby, so perhaps Apple has a new iOS device altogether lined up for the summer. So long as the iPhone 5 delay results in an iPhone 5 device which makes the wait worth it, and so long as its effect on the iPhone 6 isn?t somehow detrimental to the future of the platform, all should be forgiven the minute the iPhone 5 release date arrives. Here?s more on the6
The iPhone 5 is the first iPhone not to surface in the middle of summer, with its expected September release date giving the current iPhone 4 a nearly fifteen month lifespan. The iPhone 5 either sticks with the autumn-ish timeframe and surfaces in September 2012, or it pops up next summer after a mere nine months of the iPhone 5 being on the market. The latter seems unlikely unless the iPhone 5 unexpectedly turns out to be a mere minor update over the iPhone 4. So we?re probably looking at the iPhone 6 not arriving until fourteen months from now. That?s a long haul for those iPhone 4 users who had been planning to skip the iPhone 5 for budget or contractual reasons, and they may now reconsider.Other Business News:Dell latitude d620 batteryDell vostro 1510 batteryHP Pavilion DM4 batteryThen there?s the thorny mess surrounding the AT&T ? T-Mobile merger. Apple already has the iPhone 5 lined up to launch on Verizon with the same release date as AT&T, and Apple can cut a separate iPhone 5 deal with Sprint any time it wants (for all we know, it already has). But any deal with T-Mobile would need to unofficially run through AT&T, which is in the long process of attempting to gain regulatory approval for the merger followed by the even longer process of merging the two carriers into a single mobile network and a single administrative business. Or as Beatweek reader Dave puts it, ?If and by the time the merger goes through, it will affect the iPhone 6 more than the iPhone 5.? So does Apple go and do an iPhone 5 deal with T-Mobile now, or does it wait until some unspecified point in the future in which T-Mobile gains a future iPhone through AT&T by default? Stay tuned. And then there are the procedural issues. Will the delay of the iPhone 5 allow it to become the first 4G enabled iPhone, snapping up that title from the iPhone 6? With iOS 5 now surfacing in the fall, Apple must decide whether iOS 6 and future versions will also be fall releases, which ties into whether the iPhone 6 shifts back to the summer or keeps with the fall. If it?s the latter, there?s the question of what Apple will now introduce each summer, with that spot having been vacated. The iPad is a spring baby, so perhaps Apple has a new iOS device altogether lined up for the summer. So long as the iPhone 5 delay results in an iPhone 5 device which makes the wait worth it, and so long as its effect on the iPhone 6 isn?t somehow detrimental to the future of the platform, all should be forgiven the minute the iPhone 5 release date arrives. Here?s more on the6
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