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Apple recently introduced their new phones for 2020. Which, for the first time, include four different models. The iPhone 12 mini, iPhone 12, 12 Pro, and 12 Pro Max. Back in the early days, from the original iPhone to the iPhone 5, they only introduced one new model per year. But starting in 2012 with the 5s and 5c, Apple began releasing two iPhones. And in 2017, three new models. And their decision to release multiple iPhones has been met with some criticism. You’ll often find complaints on social media that buying an iPhone has become more confusing than ever. Since customers are forced to browse through several tiers of iPhone models with different features and prices, whereas Apple used to offer a one-size-fits-all solution that was much simpler for customers to understand. So in this video I’m going to explain why Apple went from releasing one iPhone per year to four.
"Why apple makes so many phones" Meanwhile Samsung: makes 20+ phones every year.
And it actually feels like Samsung is releasing 20+ models every month
@SuperSydneyPerson 1 But overall nothing has changed. Apple may has released slightly more devices in the last years but they also stopped selling older iPhone models. Previously, when the iPhone 6S was released for example, Apple sold the 6S, 6S Plus, 6, 6 Plus, 5S and 5C at the same time which makes it a total of 6 devices even back then. Today we have the iPhone 12 models, SE, XR and 11. So only 1 device more overall but MUCH more variety. Apple has a bigger catalog of different form factors, sizes and designs with 7 models than Samsung with all their 30+ devices
ikr lol
Samsung made more different phones in 2020, then Apple had ever.
Um did you mean that as the number of cameras on their phones?
If people find Apple confusing, they have never tried to buy an android before 😅
Samsung made more different phones in 2020, than Apple had ever.
Ya and then even if have a favorite company (usually Samsung, Huewei ,Oppo ,Xiaomi ,Honor ,oneplus or VIVO) they still have 10s of phones PER YEAR
@@buddybruh9785 most hilarious must have been Motorola,it’s at least 1 new model per week,sometimes more than 1 model 😂
@@Ka_T_ya LOL ,Motorola fans really have to have the money to buy the latest phones😹😹
@@Ka_T_ya Are you a fan of a particular company, I am not but I have an IPhone ,I honestly like every phone company especially Xiaomi for their killer prices with the latest flagship chipsets.
Samsung: releasing a phone whenever they feel like it for every price range for every country
M Series go Bbrrrrrrrr
🤠👉👉
and forget about them after 2 years 🤡
@@klyplays You mean 8 months
@@klyplays nope. 4 years for flagship (or longer idk). 2 years for cheap one
*Why Apple Makes so Many Phones?* *Samsung* : Am I f*kng joke to you???
Exactly
I didn’t know until I saw all these jokes
Chinese manufacturers like Xiaomi or Huawei or Bbk release 1000 phones a year
J, A, note, “duos” and S series...
@@muratadam1235 and M series and Active.
"Why Apple makes so many phones" Samsung: "Hold my Note"
S, Note, A, M, (and j but thats now discontinued)
Also fold if you consider that
Azziah Sutton I JUST WANTED TO SAY THAT😂😂
Have you heard about Xiaomi?
Antonio Fernández lol
Apple Explained: Apple makes so many phones Samsung making 50 phones/year: welcome to the party
And Xiaomi too lol
Yeah and it makes your $1000 phone $300 in 2 years because they make so many.
@EagleT Vlogs he makes a lot of Samsung Videos
It's not the same thing. They have different model lines. iPhone has 1, and they release the same version essentially of that ONE MODEL LINE year after year. Once again, Samsung have different model lines to satisfy people's needs across the spectrum. Not the same thing. Don't even know why you thought this comparison was valid smh
Meanwhile Xiaomi makes a new phone what seams like twice per week
Again with the smooth transition to your sponsor 😳
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So dreamy 😻
*segue
Thats A an amazing coincidence or B a dazzling Channel of common sense
Yep
I don’t get how choosing between 4 different phones could be confusing. I love the fact they offer different choices for each generation.
That’s the opposite appeal to Apple products. Android phones already do that
Are you an Android fan?
Yep. which is technically just 2 different phones that come in two different sizes.
apple explained: "why apple makes so many phones" Samsung: *releases 20 phones within a year*
@Achmad Putra yes XD
Samsung made more different phones in 2020, then Apple had ever.
@@ATM648 that’s a bad thing-
@@texasmama3084 So consumer choice is bad? Competition in the marketplace is bad? I'm gonna need some help understanding where you are trying to go with this...
@@ATM648 they're trying too hard, going so quickly to catch up, they'll end up straining themselves, unable to find new ideas, at least that's how I interpret it.
I like that there are so many phones, it kind of killed the trend of having the newest iPhone. So once everyone got confused about iPhones and there were multiple kinds, people stop having an eye for the newest. The confusion also made people more conscious about the phone. Instead of buying the shiniest model, people had to to think about what they needed. And after that, a good amount of people realized that they didn’t need an upgrade every year or even every 2 years. I’m not saying that sales declined but it really helped Apple convince people to focus more on tech than trend
couldnt agree more
@@chocolatnoir1108 Yep. Same here
I had not thought about this one but you’re absolutely right ! People now choose what they need instead of having the newest because of status
Yup and trends die out within time, Apple knows that the iPhone is not a trend
This is so true
Hate him or love him, he’s got the smoothest sponsorship transitions
I like it, by the time you realise it’s an ad and you get annoyed it’s already finished
That’s called not properly disclosing your sponsorship and it’s illegal in some countries.
@@iedi3 SAMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE i actually wanna get it except I have a better one but I don't pay for it but if I were an adult and I wanted to play it safe I would go with ting
@@ayellowpapercrown6750 duh everything is illegal now 🤦🏽♂️ such a low quality government.
@@Dr-Random no, hidden advertisement is genuinely harmful and dangerous and I’m glad legal institutions are taking a stand against them.
I love how the SE 2 was designed like the 6 and 7 with round edges, but the 12s were flat edges like the 5 and SE lol.
se 2020 was designed literally exactly like the 8
@@toltor3d694 which was like the 7, which was like 6
@@LaelGames7913 which was kinda like the 5s which was a teeny bit similar to the 5
@@mostbaseddog which was inspired by the 4s, which is basically a 4
@@LaelGames7913 and the 4 is basically a fat 3GS which is really close to a 3g
The transition to your sponsor was so smooth, I didn’t realize it was even a sponsor at first
ikr
When Apple releases 5 phones: People: Why does Apple make so many phones? Samsung and Xiaomi: *Nervous sweating*
I'm sorry what.
Xiaomi made like 20 models in 2020
@@adamjalal220 tbh no really
@@crabrangoon2493 More like 50. Xiaomi has two sub-brands that sell the exact same devices at different names.
I feel like Sony is worse. Have you seen there names!
Apple fans: Man why does Apple make so many phones Samsung fans: Don't even get us started on Samsung they have a phone for about every price range
And That's The Problem Why Android Slowly Lose Its Value ... Nearly 1000+ Androids Phones In A Year
@@Jt-hn6lp that's why u never buy an android on launch day😂😭 I learned the hard way
Well think about it they get a bigger market share🤣🤣
@Carlos Mendoza yes they are but Samsung has range of phones which that you pick like for example i got a a51 because it fits in my recommend budget and was still powerful
@@nattyplayz389 iPhone SE exists
Apple Explained: Why Apple Makes So Many Phones Android: Samsung, Xiaomi and Huawei releases more than 40 phones per brand, per year.
Apple launching 4 phones a year Samsung: im 6 parallel universes ahead of you
Xiaomi : Amateurs
BBK : lol kids these days
@@Jt-hn6lp Samsung : Oh nice kid.. laughs in world smartphone share domination..
Apple makes so many phones? bro just look at Huawei. A new phone every damn month
That’s the point I’m trying to prove. Idk what he was thinking with this title 😂 3-5 phones a year is NOTHING
Or Samsung. I can't even name all of the series they make, let alone all the phones.
That's because Huawei targets every single smartphone market
It is no match against Xiaomi
Same with Xiaomi
What!? Apple makes so many phones? That's the best joke I've heard in a while.
Xddddd
Honestly I feel like apple makes the least phones compared to some brands.
Looking at the older prices compared to now, they were so cheap 😩😩
Life was simple when I got the Samsung galaxy s8 , 4 flagships a year with a couple of flagship outliers , a couple of upper middle class phones , a few mid rangers and a couple budget options . Now it’s 10 flagships 20 upper mid rangers 60 mid rangers 80 budget and 3 cheap phones
The plastic case of 5c is that it had to sacrifice the unibody aluminium case of the 5 to keep up the production of 5s considering how much 5s has improved from the 5.
Plastic was a great idea to make it lighter. Pro models use stainless steel which is heavy. So I prefer aluminum, the middle between the two.
Now a days I'm so curios to check every videos to see how he gone smoothly transition to sponsor ads it's good to see even a sponsor ads plays a role in the video narrative itself 😀
Thank you for creating these awesome videos for us ❤️
I find it astonishing that i still use my 2yr old 1st gen SE and this screen, the same screen size was in development 10yrs ago. I was in schooling and now im graduated already. Still using my phone with one hand made me feel awesome.
* 5 year old SE. Also he said 2012 for the 5S and 5C.. The 5S and the 5C came out in 2013, not in 2012.
@@T3Daioh2003Azumanga it’s not 5 years it’s 9 years because it was made in 2013 and it’s 2021 bruh can you count!
@@T3Daioh2003Azumanga He probably had his SE for 2 years hence why he said “my 2 year old SE”
Great presentation of your hard work and research.
Apple: for the first time they release 5 new models in a year Xiaomi: another week, another lineup release
Very good analysis. I agree with you with everything you said in the video.
samsung: am i a joke to you?
Seriously 😂
Yes lol🤣
Samsung made more different phones in 2020, then Apple had ever.
@@ATM648 than* and “ever had”* I gotchu bro.
@@jaerg91 typing on mobile is hard. Spell check and i don't get along. Meant to say "ever has"
Man if I enjoyed this video. Thanks and well done. A bit of history in brief 😊😊
That add transition was buttery smooth btw
The bit about the phone being essential being used one handed is exactly the row of detail that I love about Apple. I’m literally that customer.
Very interesting! Also, some suggest that Apple was forced to introduce more iPhones as a Corporate Strategy, that consists in leveraging on its share and saturating the market with product proliferation in order to slow down new incoming competitor (Huawei in the first place)
Greg, wonderful explanation about modern iPhones. My all time favorite was the 5S. I miss that little guy a lot and I had to move on with technology. With Apple releasing the SE 2 and iPhone 12 mini I may be 🤔 able to live that small form factor again. What’s your iPhone of choice sir?
I hope you got the 12 or 13 mini that’s the best choice if you loved the 5s
id go SE
thank you for your videos, you are the best.
The iPhone 12 came out just 4 months ago. Everyone: Let’s talk about the iPhone 13! iPhone 12: TrIgGeReD
Cringe
@@SNTMadeMe Cringe
That was 4 months ago? feels like yesterday
Cringe
I also believe another reason Apple released this many phones at the different price points is so they can shift their focus to services/subscriptions instead of hardware. People seem to keep their phones a little longer now, as there are many options now. Once Apple can get a customer into their walled garden they can keep them there by offering services that generate recurring revenue instead of relying primarily on new smartphone purchases.
Nice add implementation, very smart.
That Ting Ad was the smoothest sponsor I've ever seen in a KZhead video
The common sense part is funny as someone coming from an S10+ into a 12 Pro Max, I’ve gotten so used to the motor gymnastic and balancing act of reaching every part of the massive 6.4~6.7in screen one-handedly, and with either hand to boot lmao.
I personally am very glad apple is making more phones, ESPECIALLY the mini. I'm soo sad that one handed phones were dying out but now apple can bring them back, which is great for small handed wimps like me
The mini is the only reason why I switch from android to iOS
And they're discontinuing the iphone mini next year. Sorry, just companies being companies 😅
Mini is gone sorry
That transition to ad read was smooth af
Re the into: People always forget the original iPhone wasn't even a smartphone. It was a, admittedly pretty well rounded, feature phone. The ability to install additional software on the phone came with iPhone 3G and iPhone OS 2.0 update.
Just think about how many different iPod models came out before iPhone essentially cannibalized that market. We’re essentially at that same point now with phones, I’m glad they are keeping focused on great design and usability for each model’s audience. I have a Xs btw 😄
Yeah I love apple, they feel so premium and useful.
Shouldn't this be "why *Samsung* makes so many Phones"
Samsung made more different phones in 2020, then Apple had ever.
@@ATM648 that’s a bad thing
@@texasmama3084 he keeps spamming this line in the comments section and it still doesn't make any sense.
@@AdmiralBison Samsung makes like 50 new models a year, S line, Note line, A Line, M Line, and then different special versions for different markets
@@fran2911 well what's wrong with having more options to choose the A series, J series, M series are more affordable than the S line and the note line unlike apple, they released the iphone xr, 11,12 and se but still pretty much expensive and the funny part is that the non- flagship models in android have more features. just saying
the Thumb point is an excellent explanation to why small size phones are better.. they just fit your hand and you can use them with one finger, even the button layout is perfect
Made it! I love your videos!
I miss the old background music :( Great video though!
I have the new iPhone se and I love the thing it’s amazing what they were able to do with it especially bring down the cost drastically and still make it have the same A13 Bionic chip as the iPhone 11
Yeah my mom is switching to iPhone 11 soon and I’m excited 😁
@@texasmama3084 nice!
That transition into the sponser wad smooooth broooo
I have had only iPhone 4 4s 5s and now a 7. All starting in January of 2013. I’m now thinking of getting the iPhone se 1 generation. I enjoy a small screen and compacted design. Some day I will go for the mini.
Apple actually released 5 iPhones in 2020 with the iPhone se
Yh he said after
Yeah I know, I Commented before I had watched the whole video
@@mntsam1930 ?
Damn, that sponsorship was so smooth I thought it was a legit part of the video
How do you create this amazing video editing?
Man that Ting ad placement was smooth
I love the iPhone 4 and 5 over everything. They have such a perfectly small display, so handy, just the right size. Now even the mini models are a tad larger
If you are somehow still using a 5 I highly reccomend getting a 13 mini it's gonna be their last truly small phone (getting discontinued because of demand of large phones) and probably the last phone made by a mainstream company that is under a 6 inch screen
@@bluemangroup_1828 I am gonna get one when the 14 comes out (price reduction). No I'm not using an iPhone 5 now, but my dad bought a used one for me temporarily so that I could phone while I waited for my normal phone from China. You know, 2 months shipment time. I just found the screen size amazing because that's what phones are supposed to be, small simple and handy. No excessive addictive media consumption devices.
@@maxz69 Are you okay with a larger phone then?
@@bluemangroup_1828 I was initially okay with a larger phone for the past years because I used to play pubg and cod (it's easier on a bigger screen), but I've stopped playing them. I've stopped playing games in general as most become boring and take away way too much time. Until I've tried the iPhone 5, I never knew what it was like to have a small phone. And I'm just in love with it now!
I love that Apple has a powerful iPhone for $399. It gave a good option for people who would otherwise just picked up an Android Phone from their carrier.
People like me don't even need to confuse about which model of I-phone should I prefer. Just prefer I-phone SE if you're not willing to spend so much or go for 12 mini if you want to spend a decent amount of your budget on an I-phone.
I wish they still made mini versions. The thumb idea is correct, at least for my hands. 12 & 13 mini are already bordering on being too big to use.
In my country 10$ is way too much for a data plan
India?
$10/mo bruh do you work in a Chinese sweatshop getting $0.3 an hour lol
“Why apple releases so many phones” Samsung: 👁👄👁
That ad transition was very smooth
Ngl, this video has THE most seamless sponsored ad transition of any video I've ever watched. Halfway into it and I was still wondering if it was part of the video or a sponsored ad. Guess it's both. I think all sponsored segments should aspire to be like this.
You mean, why does Samsung make so many phones lolll. They only make 3-5 phones a year. That’s dirt in the phone community
same with apple tho
@@xdEnvasion I’m saying Samsung drops 30-50+ phones a year, and apple does a percentage of that (3-5 a year)
@@SNTMadeMe oh yeah sorry I misinterpreted that
Try Motorola, Xiaomi and the rest of the Chinese phones, can’t even figure their idea behind their production,but is a new phone every week for them lol.
@@SNTMadeMe they dropped 45 in 2020
I miss your old music theme Greg
Another great video
The marketing strategy literally blew my mind, like they basically just released many models within just a year to satisfy the customer's demand way back from their release of their Iphone 5 model, which literally was a few years back.
Omg when they said iPhone 10 instead of the letter X 🙌🏻 Thank You! Just Thank You! It’s such a pet peeve of mine 🙃
Apple said it’s pronounced iPhone X not iPhone 10.
"Why apple makes so many phones" Samsung: 4 phones? I make more than 10! Xiaomi and bbk: Do you guys make only one brand??
Lol
Great transition to the sponsor.
I remember I changed my iPhone 5 for a Note 3 just for the bigger screen. Came back to apple a few years later for the iPhone 7plus. So yeah big screens did matter lol.
wellllll... you could've just said they want more money.
Bruh, you don’t know what you’re saying lol. Look at Samsung with 1k phones a year does that they are money hungry?
@@nsdfancy yes there a business all businesses want money not just apple i just made fun of apple because there know for being this way and this comment was a joke maybe not a good one but it was a joke
@@julianfuller6148 you actually think that’s a JOKE?
@@julianfuller6148 I mean, you are not wrong. I don’t really agree that it’s really Apple that is “this way”, most companies are, their goal as entities is to earn and grow. Even then, I am not sure that Apple releasing more varieties of a model translates to more profit. It might mean that more people will find a new iPhone just for them (smaller, bigger, better cameras or whatever), but it can also deteriorate the brand’s strength.
@@Lyubimov89 i guess its borh
I like how Apple makes so many different models, different price ranges different specs.
@ServoDoEstado Apple has 4 models every year, Samsung has over 10.. It’s not a waste to give people choices. Some people can’t afford over a $1,000 for a phone, some people can. That’s not a waste.
As apple is going heavy into services,they should release an even cheaper version of the iPhone SE to get people into iOS and paying for services, someone who pays only £15-25 a month for a phone contract can much more easily justify paying £20-30 a month for services
the iPod Touch is basically that. They should make an iPod Touch 8th generation though.
@@the_stashiest if they added cellular capability then it could sell well
I am a chronic Galaxy Note user so when I eventually bought my first iPhone I went for the iPhone 11 Pro Max. Smaller iPhones could never suit me. Nowadays I carry both a Galaxy Note and an iPhone Pro Max.
It's so funny, after all that trend of phones getting bigger and bigger, I feel like I am left with no other choice than to buy a iPhone mini, because I want to go back to one-hand-usable. And I am very thankful that at least someone offers some phone like that 🙏
That was a freakin smooth ad transition, you trickster
I bought my 14 Mini because I’m mostly on my iPad and 4s was my favorite iPhone was the 4s. The 13 mini makes me plenty happy and fits the MagSafe wallet perfectly. Even though I was hoping for smaller, but the wallet and other accessories are the limit for how small apple will go. If the iPhone 14 gets announced without a Mini… I might be ok buying another 13 mini just in case. I should probably wait till the next SE gets announced though.
there will be no iphone 14 mini. Only a 14 max
Still making smoothest transition to channel sponsors on KZhead. Period.
So many IPhones? *xiaomi laughing after launching a phone every 2 weeks*
“Why Apple makes so many phones” Apple: Ermm... Money?
Then samsung , 🤔
Do u still do live videos on Saturday night
That was the smoothest transition to a sponsor in KZhead history
Who’s watching on a iPhone
Apple > Samsung
No
iPhone SE 2020 here
Me
@@astorm940 same
I still like Apples simple strategy with Smartphone releases. 4 models, 3 sizes, all released at one point in the year. Not 20+ models with all the same size released every other year. The biggest joke even is that the entire iPhone catalog from the SE, XR, 11 and the new iPhone 12 models give users WAY more options for designs and sizes than the ENTIRE Android markets combined. Apple gives you 7 models, 5 different sizes and 3 different designs. Now compared to Android: literally 1000+ devices, all between 6.3 and 6.8" with about the same devices size, mostly the same "bezelless" design, ignoring all people that don't want notches, bezelless and gigantic phones.
Android has a much wider range of design than iPhone. Some Android phones have huge bezels, while some almost don't have them. There are some phones with smaller screens, but as most users don't want that, that's just a small category of Android. Considering that and the giant notch on any iPhone, and that they all look almost the same, your comment seems nonsensical to me. That said, I'm not interested in iPhone that much, and you don't seem interested in Android that much, so I'll just agree to disagree
@@megawonszrzeczny9 Sorry dude but here and there some minor changes like smaller bezels are NOT "wide range of designs". When iPhones are always blamed for "looking the same for four years" than the small differences that get ignored on iPhones, they're are also ignored on Android phones. Stop this hypocrisy bs and double standards. Most Android phones in fact DO look the same - especially from the front. And even stuff like camera bumps look closer and closer on Android. It's ridiculous to say that Android has a wide range of designs. They just in fact don't. And they have even less options when it comes to sizes, which was my main point dude. At least 95% of Android phones are literally the same size or bigger than the iPhone 13 Pro Max. There's literally not a single Android phone that even has the same size as the normal iPhone 12/13 - let alone the mini.
@@Raja995mh33 'androids look the same especially from the front' if all Androids look the same then iphones are literally the same phones with different names and higher prices lmfao
@@raghavthakur1760 dude at least TRY being realistic 😂 Apple is in FACT the only manufacturer that hasn't increased the pricing in literally 5 years. "Higher prices" only goes for Android phones and not iPhones. And iPhones are also not "the same phone" unlike most Android phones that come out through the year. There are basically no differences between Android phones in the same price range that come out in the same year.
@@Raja995mh33 Ok then tell me difference between iphone 12 and 13,except camera,colour,notch size and chip.
oml that ad transition was so smooth lol
They really surprised me in a negative way in late 2020, when they kept the huge notch and kept only a dismal 60hz.
Wait until you find out about Samsung or any Android manufacturer.
"Apple is selling 4 phones in 2020." iPhone SE 2020: Am I a joke to you?
They released 4 new phones in october not 2020
There wasn’t iphone 11 mini that year implying 4 phones
Very good video!
I mean I love samsung but last year... S20, s20+, s20u, note 20, note 20u, a31, a51, a71 I probably messed up on some of these but you get the point
Apple doesn’t make many phones compared to Samsung
True
PLEASE BRING BACK THE OLD MUSIC :(
In the intro you said “starting in 2012, starting with the iPhone 12s and 12c, Apple released two new models..” but this is incorrect as they actually came out in 2013.. Although you did correct this later in the video
that partnership ad was so sleek xd
Bcoz they want money lol 😂
They don’t care about the money as much as they care about having as many people as they can use their products rather than using a product like Samsung or one plus
@KNAX_NO4H lol
If people wanted a bigger display they could’ve gotten an iPad starting in 2010 or if that’s too big an iPad Mini starting in 2012. I actually like the small display so that’s why I currently have an iPod Touch 7th Generation.
9:03 Correction: The first time when Apple released three new models was in 2016. IPhone SE, 7 and 7 Plus
They introduced the 6s, 6s Plus and SE the same (Generation) year. So 3 phones 2 years before 2017.