With the launch of ios10, I wouldn't be surprised to see only iPhone SE, 6, 6+, 6s, 6s+ getting the upgrade. Apple has been supporting devices with updates, that are long past their shelf life, which is good, but I think in order to better unify all OS's that Apple has they have to draw a line with iOS 10. That line will have to have certain things. Apple Pay, Finger print reader, and Siri. iPhones that came out before the 6 may have a feature or two, but not all. The SE does several things, First appeal to the smaller screen crowd, that being the most important for users not wanting to upgrade, it also is more budget friendly and with the body of a 5s, appeals even more who are still holding out. The SE also brings to the table Apple Pay and the finger print scanner. When Apple released iOS 10, make it only available on the 6,6s and SE family tree to push those customers towards the new hardware and software. iOS 10 will hopefully bridge the gaps I've experienced when communicating with WatchOS tvOS and OS X, making this upcoming update to more of a "wrinkle free experience" that iOS 9 tried to do when it was ironing out everything.
But yeah, SE, 6, 6+, 6s, and 6s+, will be the only iPhones to receive the update come September.
As far as the iPad line, Air 2 and up, mini 3 and up.
Only thing that could make my argument invalid is the iPod.
It doesn't have the fingerprint scanner but if its able to get the ios10 update, that means the 5, 5s and 5c could as well. I can't really see Apple not updating it, but I don't know if updating the iPod and not the 5 family tree would be possible.
I really think Apples iPhone SE is a push to get those 30 million people to a newer phone and thats why they're doing the 5 body style and making it budget friendly. Apple is a hardware company and by making iOS 10 only available to SE, 6s family, makes the most sense to me.
03-29-2016 11:45 AM