Apple to Discontinue iPhone 5c Model Next Year: Report

According to Taiwan's Industrial and Commercial Times report (via MacRumors), the production of the iPhone 5c is likely to stop in the middle of 2015, with Apple suppliers Wistron and Foxconn look to wind down production of the smartphone by that time.

The report did not suggest any specific reason behind the production withdrawal, and as yet there is no word from Apple about the report.

Notably, Apple follows the trend of discounting old devices when it launches new ones. Last year, when the company had launched the iPhone 5c alongside iPhone 5s, it had discontinued the iPhone 5 with immediate effect, even making sure that the device no longer remains on sale in markets worldwide.

Though Apple expected a lot from the colourful plastic iPhone 5c smartphone, a report in October last year said that the sales were rather disappointing. Verizon Communications Chief Financial Officer Fran Shammo had said that iPhone 5c "undersold expectations" in the third quarter, while its pricier iPhone 5s was in short supply.

The "[iPhone] 5c is in plenty supply" and "if you generally talk to each of the carriers I think they'll tell you the same thing," Shammo had told Reuters in an interview last year.

Another report around that time also went on to say that Apple had even cut down the production orders of iPhone 5c just a month after it was launched.