AI Is Apple’s Best Shot at Getting You to Upgrade Your iPhone

Apple announced Apple Intelligence at its annual developer conference, a suite of AI features for iPhone, iPad and Mac that the article describes as a possible driver of an upgrade cycle. The features will run only on the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max, certain iPad Pro and Air models, and Macs with M1 chips or later, and Apple has not said why older devices are excluded. Wedbush Securities managing director Dan Ives tweeted that an AI-driven iPhone upgrade cycle could start with the iPhone 16. The article notes that Apple's iPhone sales fell 10 percent year over year in the January through March period, and that IDC reported 309.4 million used smartphone shipments in 2023.