The iPhone 15 is perhaps among the finest smartphones you should buy, however a brand new report has predicted that its successor, the iPhone 16, gained’t come wherever close to it. The truth is, if the report is right the iPhone 16 is perhaps an improve to skip utterly.

That’s in keeping with the analysts at Barclays, a minimum of (by way of 9to5Mac). The group’s newest analysis be aware claims that the outlook is bleak for Apple within the coming yr, with “weak spot on iPhone volumes and blend, in addition to an absence of bounce-back in Macs, iPads, and wearables.”

Maybe the harshest phrases are reserved for the iPhone 16. Barclays says that “we see no options or upgrades which are prone to make the iPhone 16 extra compelling,” suggesting that the following iPhone could possibly be a complete dud – a minimum of within the analysts’ opinion.

The report can also be gloomy about Mac gross sales quantity and Apple providers efficiency for the approaching yr – and it makes no point out of the Imaginative and prescient Professional in any respect, maybe as a result of low gross sales expectations for the gadget. All in all it is hardly portray a rosy image of Apple’s future.

A dismal outlook

The declare that the iPhone 16 will lack any “compelling” options is an fascinating one, because it’s not completely mirrored within the rumors we’ve seen elsewhere. Is the Barclays report inaccurate, or do its analysts know one thing that nobody else does?

Elsewhere, we’ve seen reviews that the iPhone 16 vary will function haptic buttons and a brand new ‘Seize’ management, an improved digital camera system, new sizes and a significant chip improve. One leak has even claimed that Apple will use graphene tech to maintain the telephones cool. So, whereas a few of these rumors is perhaps vast of the mark, there’s nonetheless so much that might make it into Apple’s subsequent telephone lineup.

That mentioned, it’s typically finest to err on the aspect of warning in relation to Apple. The corporate prefers a affected person strategy moderately than dashing options out the door, and that always results in delays, and rumors that show to not be correct. With that in thoughts, the Barclays report’s reserved outlook may find yourself being on the cash.

Or it could possibly be overly pessimistic – at this stage we’ve obtained no means of realizing for positive. Whereas Apple followers will likely be hoping there’ll certainly be so much to get enthusiastic about with the iPhone 16, we’ll have to attend till its launch, probably in September, to know for positive.

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