Jan 30, 2024BF3E-0006Never settled
Ming-Chi Kuo: iPhone 16 to skip major design changes
The iPhone 16 models were not expected to have significant design changes.
Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo reported that the iPhone 16 models would not have any significant design changes beyond larger displays and the new Capture Button, with more comprehensive generative AI features unlikely before the iPhone 17.
How to read this record
- What was reportedThe iPhone 16 models were not expected to have significant design changes.
- Who said it, and whenMing-Chi Kuo reported it on Jan 30, 2024 in MacRumors.
- What happened, and whenApple iPhone 16 was announced on Sep 9, 2024, 223 days after this report. From our product record · source
- The verdict, and whyNever settledThe company has announced the product and nobody ever confirmed or denied this.Why: “No significant design changes” is too qualitative to settle cleanly against the launch materials; Apple changed several controls and camera layout details while retaining the overall form.
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- Wrong
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- Moving target
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- Never settled
- The company has announced the product and nobody ever confirmed or denied this.
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- Checked
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- Moving target
- A moving target is a report that described the plan accurately at the time, on a product the company then changed. We count these on their own: it would flatter a reporter to call them right, and it would blame a reporter for a decision that was not theirs to call them wrong.
- Reported by
- Ming-Chi Kuo
- We read it in
- MacRumors
- Product
- Apple iPhone 16 · reported as “iPhone 16”