Reports of the 20th anniversary iPhone’s death seems to be greatly exaggerated

Macworld In 2027 the iPhone will celebrate its 20th birthday, and this has raised expectations of a momentous launch. In 2017, for comparison, we got the iPhone X, an almost all-screen handset and Apple’s first phone without a Home button. What’s in store next year? That depends on who you ask. For some time pundits have predicted that the 20th-anniversary iPhone will be a major redesign. Rumors have pointed to a very large “quad-curved screen”, with glass making up the majority of the chassis, both front and back. But this vision was put in doubt earlier this week when Jefferies analyst Edison Lee claimed the project had been canceled as a result of “low yield” or a lack of projected return on investment. This news was such a disappointment to investors that shares in the company promptly dropped by almost 3 percent. But Mark Gurman, one of the foremost leakers pushing the quad-curved theory, has now published a new report insisting that Lee is mistaken. In