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The ‘usual suspects’ of Apple’s flagship iPhone 17 lineup comprise of four models, with the company introducing the iPhone 16e earlier this year, making it a total of five devices. Going forward, an analyst claims that the Cupertino giant will slowly but surely increase the number of iPhones each year, with 2027 witnessing the arrival of six handsets catering to different price brackets.
An increase in the number of iPhones comes from Apple’s adoption of the foldable form factor and introduction of successive low-cost options
A report from Chosun mentions a Daishin Securities analyst named Park Kang-ho, who talks about the shift in Apple’s iPhone launch strategy. Last y