Welcome to our weekend Apple Breakfast column, which includes all the Apple news you missed this week in a handy bite-sized summary. We call it Apple Breakfast because we think it goes great with a cup of coffee or tea in the morning, but it’s cool if you want to read it during lunch or dinner hours as well.
In defense of the iPhone SE
In no other job is it a good sign when people start scolding you. But that’s online journalism for you, a field where aggressive emails are a sign that one of your stories has taken off. (Such emails don’t even necessarily mean your opinion was controversial, because people very rarely write to strongly agree. It just means lots of people are reading it.)
This week, I used our Different Think column to voice an opinion that I think would be relatively uncontroversial: that Apple should let the iPhone SE die. I thought the SE made sense when the all-screen iPhone design was relatively new and older designs offered an acceptable compromise, but the window had long since closed and the device didn’t represent more good value.
It turns out – and it’s always a surprise to me – not everyone agrees. A series of (actually very polite and articulate) emails from SE fans pointed to its size, price, and lack of Face ID as points in its favour, and expressed dismay at the idea. of his interruption. Another reader, meanwhile, detected an ulterior motive Apple might have for keeping the SE around: as an entry-level drug to hook tech newbies and veteran Android users before they don’t buy into the Apple ecosystem as a whole.
If only Apple could count on 100 million additional customers as loyal to the iPhone SE! But sadly, I suspect my pen pals are in the minority… and the number of SE supporters could dwindle further when the fourth-generation SE is unveiled next year. It’s expected to be based on the iPhone 14 chassis, which means at least two and probably all three of those advantages will go away: it won’t be as small or as cheap as the iPhone SE from 2022, and is likely to also have Face ID. (Although Apple may put Touch ID in the power button, as it does on the entry-level iPad.) Even the SE’s most loyal fans may find that’s no longer the phone they are looking for.
Still, it’s a good sign for Apple that even its less glamorous handset can still inspire so much passion; I’d be surprised if many readers wrote in defense of a budget Samsung phone based on a four-year-old design.
Thanks for the emails, everyone. except for this A guys. He was just rude.
IDG
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The rumor mill
Does the mysterious Studio Display firmware mean a new Mac Pro is imminent?
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The iPhone 15s USB-C port could be as locked as Lightning.
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Podcast of the week
It may be cold in the US and UK, but that doesn’t stop the iPhone Rumors to heat up! We have a flurry of iPhone speculation and we talk about it in this episode of the igamesnews Podcast.
You can watch every igamesnews podcast episode on Spotify, Soundcloud, Podcasts app or our own site.
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