so the 2018 model will only appeal to shoppers today at a highly discounted price. When it was still on sale, the iPhone XS started at $999 for 64GB of storage.

The iPhone XS Max was launched in 2018 but stopped selling a year later. On the other hand, the iPhone 6s Plus, which debuted in 2015, continued to be on the market for sale until 2018.

Vintage and obsolete status refers to whether Apple and Apple-certified repair services can fix devices with expired warrantees and supply parts for those models. A vintage model is when it "stopped ...