If Apple can study hard to create a low-cost iPhone, this is a project among others, that will not necessarily achieving, "says New York Times.
The rumor of the iPhone nano, or at least offered an iPhone at an attractive price had rebounded with an article in the Wall Street Journal arguing details which suggested that the project was well under way but said he could not yet see the day.
The New York Times returns to the subject and suggests the other hand there is a project of low-cost iPhone from Apple, but it is only a working track among others and society still has no plans to make a commercial product.
The priority now is to finalize the next version of the iPhone (iPhone 5, we had confirmation at MWC 2011 that will carry out a module NFC), expected this summer, and there would be no other launch of mobile terminal provided.
Some advantages, many problems.
As we indicated at the mention of the article in the Wall Street Journal, such a project would not necessarily be very interesting for Apple and would bring more problems than benefits. He would lose profitability and could lead to fragmentation of the platform iOS one of whose forces currently is precisely its cohesion, both software and hardware.
While a low-cost iPhone help Apple increase its market share but the company has always targeted a particular niche, that of high-end and it has not ventured to relocate elsewhere, simply lower the price older models as and when the new ones arrive.
Make volume is not necessarily a panacea for a manufacturer of terminals and examples of Sony Ericsson and Motorola are there to remind.
