The pre-recorded video event streamed Tuesday gave
As has been the case since Apple’s late co-founder unveiled the first iPhone in 2007,
Like last year's model, the new iPhone 13 will come in four different designs, with prices starting from
“It's an incremental upgrade," said Gartner analyst
Possibly the most notable change in the latest high-end iPhone 13 will be an option for a full terabyte of storage — that's 1,000 gigabytes — on the device, up from its previous maximum of 512 gigabytes. That's enough storage to accommodate roughly 250,000 photos, or about 500 hours of high definition video.
Having a massive amount of storage could become more important to many consumers with the advent of ultra-high definition video and ultrafast wireless 5G networks that will make downloading content faster and easier, Nguyen said.
“We keep making the iPhone more capable,”
These kinds of incremental upgrades have become routine for
But the release of last year’s iPhone 12 unleashed one of Apple’s biggest sales spurts since 2014, possibly because the pandemic helped make homebound people realize it was time to get a newer and better model than what they had been using. Through the first six months of this year, Apple’s iPhone sales have surged by nearly 60% from the same time last year.
That boom has helped push Apple’s stock price near its all-time highs recently, giving the company a market value of about
Apple’s shares dipped 1% in Tuesday’s afternoon trading in a sign that that investors didn’t see much to get excited about during the unveiling of the next iPhones.
Although the iPhone is still by far Apple’s biggest moneymaker, the company has been trying to supplement its success with peripheral products such as its smartwatch. The
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