The ‘E’ in iPhone 16E Might As Well Stand for Expensive
Apple has announced its latest phone, iPhone 16eand delete its budget immediately iPhone SE (2022) From its online store. While this suggests that Apple sees its new phone as a follow-up to its only affordable option, its $600 price means it’s more like a discounted premium phone than a real budget option.
But I insist on hope. I’m an iPhone SE Truther: I believe that affordable phone space is too valuable for Apple. The iPhone 16e is home to a mid-range character that has disappeared for several key reasons, but at some point the company will win back to the true successor of iPhone SE Throhen, even if just to stop Samsung From lunch.
Samsung has dominated the market for budget phones for years Galaxy A15 5GThis is a phone that’s under $200 The fourth best-selling mobile phone Last year in the United States. Although Apple phone fans have at least $430 for iPhone SE, it’s the most affordable way to access iOS and Apple services. SE is also suitable for users who want to have no decoration iPhone They can be used for many years. I can’t imagine the company trying to give up on the constituency.
Check: iPhone 16e pre-order deal: How to save Apple’s new budget model
Even if Apple suggests that the iPhone 16E is its budget option, the phone has a different purpose: it is the most affordable phone with advanced features. In addition to the performance of its A18 chip, it also has Apple Smart (and the unspecified RAM required to run it), a high-resolution 48-megapixel rear camera and a 6.1-inch OLED display covering the full front of the phone. It also supports satellite services Apple’s Emergency SO and iMessage Send a text message.
All of these features may justify price increases, but they also attract different customer areas than buyers of the iPhone SE line. Who is the iPhone 16e? Consumers who want these quality features and are willing to give up some “discounts”. There is one place for the iPhone 16e, but it’s not the bottom layer of Apple’s phone lineup.
Obviously, Apple is not interested in updating the design Budget phonewith the 2022 iPhone SE having the same look as the iPhone 6 (big rod on the chin and top, home button), the look was the iPhone 6 launched in 2014. Pumping out the same old monitors and body design year by year can be an economic advantage. To its credit, Apple did work hard to upgrade the hardware to ensure that later iPhone SE models could handle all the new iOS features until the software update five to seven years later ages gracefully.
However, since Apple took the 2022 iPhone SE from its online store, the company seems to be looking for a break from that phone. Hopefully this is just retiring that particular aging design and using the iPhone 16E as a freeze until the company figures out the best way to move forward. Ultimately, there are some features, such as Apple Intelligence and Semark Sos, that require higher components and chips to work. At this time, it is unclear whether Apple can use these features to make cheap phones, including in every new phone it releases.
Perhaps Apple thinks these are standard for its future phones, and if so, you can put the iPhone SE series on ice until these components become cheap enough to get the phone back to its budget price. Of course, it is always possible that Apple will decide that the price point below the $600 price point of the iPhone 6e is not possible.
I don’t think we’ve seen the last one on the iPhone SE, or at least I’m sticking with hope. For all the phone nerds like me who want the latest and greatest, there are plenty of other people who just want a feature to use, and so far Apple has offered them at a reasonable price. I hope it will become like this again soon.
Watch the following: iPhone 16e is here
