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0 pointsazernik9y ago0 comments

It's actually a very Apple strategy - discount the old iPhone, the fans realize a new one is in the pipeline but nothing's announced, and then the new one is finally released.

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gruturo9y ago

The iPhone is on an extremely predictable release cycle. Especially fans would absolutely know that one comes around the last week of September every year. This scheduling got changed only _once_ (moved from June to September), and this was not kept secret.

abhorrence9y ago

But the iPhone is predictably released each year, so I'm not sure this is really the same.

azernikOP9y ago

But differing times of year. So fans use the discounts as a leading indicator of releases on the month to 2 month scale.

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