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Originally Posted by afv011
Leaving out software features would make no difference to the phone cost, the software is already baked, it would actually cost more to remove features than to leave it as is - developer costs to update the ROM to remove those features, plus all the additional testing.
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The point of leaving out software features isn't to make the phone cheaper to produce, but the leave a differentiation between the low and high end models, and reduce the cannibalisation of iPhone sales.