A bigger iPhone 6 model would help Apple gain additional profits and market share in the mobile business, ISI Group analyst Brian Marshall revealed in a note to investors obtained by AppleInsider. According to the analyst, Apple’s first phablet will drive “significant upgrades among iPhone users,” and also convert many Android users to iOS, once screen size parity between the two competing platforms is reached. Thus, a screen size of around 5 inches will be responsible for the “motherlode of all [iPhone] upgrade cycles” so far. Marshall says that Apple’s current iPhone installed based is at somewhere around 260 million, with more than half of sales going to upgraders. In a regular quarter, around 9% of the total number of
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