Apple iPhone 5S Released Date rumored for September
September has been voted as the alleged month when Apple is going to release its iPhone 5S, and the lower budget iPhone is supposedly coming out only a little while after that. Or so Citigroup analysts state.
China Times mentions that among other reasons which support this idea, Citigroup bases its theory on Apple’s choosing September as the release date of the iPhone 5S on a hint Tim Cook has given out via the previous earnings’ call that lead everybody to believe this was the month when we should pay attention and look out for the upcoming smartphone. Moving on, the next move would be the low-cost plastic iPhone everybody has been recently talking about, which shall be designated especially for emerging markets, and that shall sport a much more simple and less expensive layout in the detriment of the trends that the company has so far kept for its iPhone line.
One of the most important elements that contributes to this launch seems to be a decrease in demand when it comes to the iPhone 5, which might make September be the perfect timeframe for the launch of the upcoming device, says Zhangkai Wei, chief analyst for Citigroup for the Asia-Pacific region. If we look into it a little more, it makes perfect sense for the company to go ahead with the release of the iPhone 5 S in early September, as we are currently in the loop with some alleged problems they might be encountering in terms of pre-production, plus an expected hol-up with the iOS 7 operating system too.
Analysts on the matter seem to believe that when it comes to the actual direction Apple is going into with the launch of its products, the company wants to keep a low profile for now and even send out mixed signals in terms of time frames. Let’s take the iPad 4 and the iPad Mini, suggests the Stabley Times. It seems that they are low in the stockings for these products and that a stop has been put to them in terms of production – which shall apparently happen before they get to publicly come out with the upcoming lines of products. As mentioned, opinions on the topic are pretty mixed at this stage. On the one hand, some sources state that we might even experience the release of the above mentioned products early this summer, whereas, on the other hand – other rumors have it that the tablets shall also be launched in the fall. The latter theory is the one that Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities aligns with, as he militates for the autumn release.
But at the end of the day we have no official Apple confirmation on any of the presented theories, as the company has yet not made any public statements on the actual dates for the release of the mentioned products. As always with these type of theories, we will need to keep an eye out for any statements and to of course wait for the actual Apple officials to address the matter.
