Apple "killed" iPhone 5, leaving on sale iPhone 4S

Steve Jobs loved the 3.5-inch iPhone 4, and once said that no one will buy more smartphones, which competed in 2010 with the iPhone 4. Now the yard in 2013 and yesterday Apple introduced two new 4-inch iPhone. iPhone 5 with his 4-inch screen has been very successful product, but Jobs was right, for many 3.5-inch smartphone is really a piece of cake.

Yesterday Apple revealed two new models of iPhone: 5C and 5S, at the same time "hanging on a nail» iPhone 5. Now, if you want to buy a 4-inch device, your choices are limited between polycarbonate colorful 5C and solid iPhone 5S. At the same time, sales remained 3.5-inch iPhone 4S.

iPhone 4S can buy free with 2-year contract from the many mobile operators. This should breathe life into an old model of the iPhone, which is manufactured and sold for 2 years. Have you ever heard of HTC continued to sell his model Thunderbolt? But the iPhone 4S is still one of the best-selling smartphone in the world, and was even able to "survive" his successor. In addition, Apple continues to maintain this model in software.

This is not the first time in Apple's practice, when she "kills" a more modern model of the device, leaving the older model on sale. It did so kupertinovtsy c iPad 3rd Generation, iPad 2 left in sale with 16 GB of memory on board.

What do you think, how good will be sold iPhone 4S? whether he will remain as popular? Leave your answers in the comments.