Apple sets the stage for the iPhone 7, but many already expect to 8 – Yahoo Finance Spain

By Julia Love

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – It is expected that the iPhone 7 world this Wednesday, but many consumers and investors and they are setting their sights on a later version of the popular Apple smartphone in 2017, hoping to more significant progress.

In its annual product launch in San Francisco on Wednesday, analysts and bloggers expect the world’s largest listed unveil an iPhone without headphone jack paving the way to wireless headphones, a button-sensitive start to touch vibrating, dual cameras lens in the “Plus” model and other incremental improvements.

Usually Apple gives to its main product, which contributes half of the income of technology, a great change image every two years and the last major redesign was the iPhone 6, 2014. the modest changes suggest that this cycle will be this time of three years.

“It seems that part of the reason why they are keeping the same design this year is that there are bigger changes that are working for next year,” said an analyst at Jackdaw Research, Jan Dawson.

iPhone sales fell in two consecutive quarters this year, the first declines in the history of the device. Apple could get single-digit increases in sales of the iPhone 7 Dawson she said.

However, some portals consumer technology are advising users to refrain from updating your phone to version next year, which will mark the tenth anniversary of the iPhone.

analysts say the iPhone 8 could present a wider screen that would extend from one edge of the device to the other, and a start button built into the screen.

analysts predict the Apple Watch will be the second protagonist of the event today. Apple is expected to renew this “wearable” with a faster processor and a GPS chip that allows users to record races and other exercises without their phones. Most analysts believe that sales of Apple clock which the company has not revelators have not yet justified ostentation.

With a starting price of $ 299, well above many other devices in its segment, the most significant change that Apple can do is to cut prices, said Ben Bajarin, analyst with Creative Strategies.

“This category is very sensitive to price,” he said.