Unfortunately, it’s not a trial balloon. Both the iPhone 8 and the iPhone X shared announcements… with only a short differences between release dates for sale:
Only 42 days separated the released to sale dates of these two phones. It used to be that Apple Deprecated iPhones at five years. So six years is pretty good.
The problem is that the technology in these phones is not capable of BEING upgraded to the newer iOS because they just do not have the hardware to take it. It ain’t there to take advantage of the upgrades the software has!
It is likely Apple will provide security upgrades for another two years post deprecation, as a friend just got a security upgrade for an iPhone 7 a short time ago. Just no performance enhancements. The iPhone 7 software support ended September 12, 2022… fully six years after it was released September 12, 2016.
I really like my iPhone 8, so I suppose my next iPhone will be an SE (latest version) to maintain the size and still get the updated hardware.
Correct?