The truth is, while there's been excitement in the tech media for a cheap iPhones, customers aren't all that thrilled by them. Must read: Don't make all the same Zoom meeting mistakes the UK government did The iPhone SE was discontinued September 2018, and Apple was in no rush to release a revamped version. Storage capacity was initially 16GB and 64GB, but a year later these were replaced models with 32GB and 128GB of capacity. You might say that this replaced the iPhone 5C, but in fact it replaced the iPhone 5S. Then in March of 2016 Apple released the iPhone SE. The 16GB and 32GB versions were discontinued September 2014, with the 8GB version abandoned by Apple a year later.Īpple was in no rush to release a revamped iPhone 5C. Initially launched with 16GB and 32GB capacities, after a few months Apple released an 8GB version.
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Unveiled alongside the more expensive iPhone 5S in September 2013, it was a good phone (the biggest difference between the two was that the 5C lacked the fingerprint reader), however, over the first three days of sale, Apple shifted three iPhone 5S handsets for every iPhone 5C it sold.
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Let's begin with Apple's first foray into cheap(er) iPhones - the iPhone 5C. But that broad generalization hand-waves over some subtleties - and that is that cheap iPhones are a hard sell for Apple. Love it or hate it, it's hard to escape the fact that the iPhone has been a massive hit over the past decade.