Apple appears to be risking a lot by cooking up an iPhone 8 (or X) anniversary edition with a never-before-seen design on Cupertino’s mobile devices. It’s an understandable gamble, given the redundant look of last year’s 7 and 7 Plus, as well as the competition’s great recent strides in the fight against bezels.
But it’s still a shot in the dark from Apple in many ways, as the supply chain seems hardly ready for a hugely popular iPhone with a radical new design. That glass back sounds tricky to manufacture in ample numbers by the typical launch window, not to mention truly game-changing components and features like in-screen fingerprint scanners or 3D facial recognition systems.
