Thread:Pippinitis/@comment-46155423-20200917105418/@comment-31714002-20200917154600

Apple's own press release compared the XR to the 8 Plus, not the 8, and it's bigger than the X. It's weird, but Apple has done weirder things with its product line before. Not everything fits together neatly.

The purpose of it was to cut corners (like getting rid of OLED) to get the price below that of the X, which was previously the high end of the line. The iPhone 11 also cut corners by leaving out OLED, so I'd agree that it directly follows the XR.

https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/iphone-xr/