At this point, the 2019 iPhone is going to be what it is going to be. Its a bit too late to go "back to the drawing board" for a iterative product launch that is as significant as the iPhone is to Apple. R&D takes time and money, thus why companies spend so much money trying to guess and out innovate each other. The iPhone that we will see in September will be the product of years of research, development, and planning. Even if Apple say the s10 and decided it needed to rapidly pivot (and I am not saying this is the case), we wouldn't see anything major until Q4 2020.
I agree with this. R&D and design is final at this point and the point they realized sales sucked was far too late to make changes for 2019.
2019 flagship will have:
-Triple camera (don't care)
-Frosted back glass (ehhh)
-Same size notch (don't care)
-Bilateral charging (don't care)
-True 2nd generation FaceID (this would be great)
-Larger batteries which will likely get eaten by something in the software to deliver the same ol' same ol' battery life (ehhh if it just gets eaten up by software)
-Some indoor positioning/navigation improvements (don't care)
-iOS 13 with dark mode (most phones will get this anyway so don't care)
I also expect a $100 price drop and a 128 GB option, if not the base storage option, which would be nice.
I expect to be wowed in 2020, they are likely working on a nice overhaul for 2020 right now. I might just go buy an Xs today to tide me over until 2020. Hate buying mid cycle, especially at full price, but 2020 seems like it will be a good year to buy and I don't want to keep my current phone for 3 years. But if I buy a 2019 phone, I'm sitting out 2020.