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With the release of a new model iPhone the market share of older models is expected to decrease each year. However, as Morgan Stanley analysts found out, this may not always be true. The company focused on the phone share iPhone with operators in the US and found that despite three or four new models, a large number of people own them iPhone 4 to iPhone 4s. What is even more surprising is that the fourth and fifth generation of the phone iPhone today they have a very large share of all the major operators in the US.

It has a dominant position. iPhone 4/4s with the Verizon operator, where these models have a share of up to 56%. The last generation from Steve Jobs also has a high share of operators AT&T and Sprint, where they have a share of 42 and 47%. On the contrary, the current generation consisting of models is in first place with the operator T-Mobile iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c, where these devices have a total share of 41%. With the results and the fact that the vast majority of people buy their phones on a two-year contract, analysts expect a large wave of upgrades to iPhone 6, which the company should have Apple to be introduced in September/September 2014. According to the speculations so far, the phone should offer a 4.7-inch display and a completely new design, thanks to which it can iPhone to switch many Android users. Previous statistics revealed that a lot of people left the platform iOS and switched to Android precisely because of the display size.

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*Source: Business Insider

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