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Demand for iPhone SE is 'Very Strong,' Exceeds Available Supply

oneMadRssn said:
I think a lot of people here derive enjoyment out of the device itself, rather than deriving enjoyment from the things the device compliments. Admittedly I am guilty of this too, sometimes. That endorphin rush when you get a new shiney toy is fun. It really is a bad way to live though.

It is much better to have other hobbies, and to get pleasure from healthier things, where the iphone or whatever can compliment or enhance the experience. For example, I love skiing, hiking, and biking. The TraceSnow, AllTrails, and Strava apps, respectively, all add to the experience. Plus, the taking photos of nature and documenting the beers I drink afterwards is fun too. All those things are just as good on an iPhone 4S as they are on an iPhone 6S or whatever, and they're all pretty darn good without any phone at all too.
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I love love LOVE Apple products, but can barely afford an iPod Touch upgrade to improve my photography. I have a 2012 5th gen and it's mint, but showing its age. I realistically downgraded my expectations of getting an SE to thinking "What do I need from this device?" - I need the Camera app and iOS photo/video editing tools (Waterlogue, oooh!), I need iMovie, iMessage and FaceTime so I'll get a 6th gen iPod Touch and I can do the rest on an old Nokia brick with hotspot for the iPod Touch 6th gen. I don't sit obsessing over the DEVICE, I think how I can make use of it, and in photography and videography terms the iPod will suffice for now, easily.
 
AFDoc said:
I upgrade yearly..... my wife does too depending on the "new" phone. Year old phone goes to the kids and their phones go onto a shelf and collect dust or are given away to family/friends that may need a phone. Right now I have a 4, 4s, 5 and 5s sitting on the shelf...... maybe I'll toss them on the bay to see what they bring.


Maybe I don't understand what you mean but especially typing. Trying to use such a tiny keyboard or even click on a link is incredibly difficult for me on the smaller devices.


LoL... I'm old enough to remember rotary telephones so by comparison I'll take a 3.5" screen.
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You should sell them. I've sold phones on Craigslist. It has been a kind of interesting experience seeing who shows up to buy them. And you get a few hundred bucks. A 4 in good shape will still pull $60 easily. Advertise them all in one Craigslist post and someone might be willing to buy them all off of you.

I bought the 4, the 5, the 6 and now have done my first yearly upgrade to the 6s. But most people I know buy every two years. I'm going to try to stay on yearly, though if there is no headphone jack that might give me pause since I have a lot of headphones.
 
Shaun said:
$13? What decade was that? I seem to remember it was about $70 when they did the 7 for 1 split. Today's after hours price of $95 would equate to approx $660 before the split. For all the money they've wasted on share buybacks the share price is going to end up back where they started. What a colossal waste of money.
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I guess you just don't remember the good old days.
 
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im_to_hyper said:
The only reason I have a 6S Plus is for OIS. I would love a 4" iPhone 7 with OIS. I just love the size and one-handed operation... But I love my photos and memories more!!
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That's why I went with the 6S Plus. I am lucky in that I'm at a point in life where I can afford to also get the SE. Assuming I can find one, I'll trade my 6Plus in for a discount on it. Most of my video recording is done in the fall and winter months and that's when the 6S Plus will get put into action. I'll switch off to the SE for the more active spring and summer months when I struggle to keep the larger iPhone in my pockets.

I currently have no interest in the next upcoming model. If I do end up upgrading in 2017, I'm holding onto the SE for the times when portability takes precedence. I don't want to be without a small, powerful, portable iPhone again. Biking, hiking, gardening is such a pain with a phablet on me.
 
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uid15 said:
Let's rewind and assess what you just wrote - you have a BRAND NEW, VERY powerful phone, and yet, already, you are looking to the next iPhone to replace it only after a FEW MONTHS? Are you bored easily? That superb handset would be usable for 3-5 YEARS.

People make me laugh - enjoy LIFE, and stop harping on about the next gadget release - it's saddening and demonstrates a LOT about modern, fickle consumerism - do you want to be an example of that?

Man, I'd be delighted with even a 5S, and can't afford even that. Be grateful for what you have - hold onto it and get to know it, some people don't have the luxuries we do.
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I appreciate your concern and lengthy reply. However, I have expendable money and can do whatever I want with it. I have upgraded to every new iPhone since the beginning. That's the right I have with disposable income, so if this makes me a product of consumerism you say, then yes, I am an example of that, and proud of it.

I'm sorry you can't afford an outdated iPhone 5s, Maybe you would settle for a gently used one on EBay with on another year when it is completely rendered obsolete? If you have any other insight or questions on my financial situation, please ask, I would be more than happy to respond.
 
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Hi everyone,
Its hard to believe but Ive been checking online store for last 10 days every 30 mins lol and you know what 64GB sim free space grey appeared only once in store which 30 miles from my place. my local store hasnt have it for 10 days in stock. I returned mine I bought April 4 because of the defect and Im leaving US on May 19 and by that time I want to get new SE lol
 
$400 in the US, $580 in Canada, which looks like 1.45 CAD-uSD exchange rate. I wonder if Apple would be as quick to adjust for the stronger CAD like it did last year for the stronger USD.

Who am I kidding...
 
I picked up a Rose Gold 64G SE for my wife and she loves it. She had an older 5s with a cracked screen... black, which was a "hand me down" from me. She doesn't like the larger iPhones because she keeps a cellular iPad in her purse all the time so only uses the phone for a phone and occasional texting/pictures. Since it has a better camera than her iPad I'll try to get her to start using it more.
 
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eXan said:
$400 in the US, $580 in Canada, which looks like 1.45 CAD-uSD exchange rate. I wonder if Apple would be as quick to adjust for the stronger CAD like it did last year for the stronger USD.

Who am I kidding...
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$400 + tax, dunno if tax included in Canada
 
convergent said:
I picked up a Rose Gold 64G SE for my wife and she loves it. She had an older 5s with a cracked screen... black, which was a "hand me down" from me. She doesn't like the larger iPhones because she keeps a cellular iPad in her purse all the time so only uses the phone for a phone and occasional texting/pictures. Since it has a better camera than her iPad I'll try to get her to start using it more.
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This sounds just like the situation that my wife and I have at the moment. Although, she said she would be fine with the 16GB.

She dropped and cracked the screen of her hand-me-down 5s a few months ago. I put some clear tape over the cracked glass just so she wouldn't cut her self until she got a new phone. She hates unnecessary spending and said that her phone was fine with the tape. So, she started using he broken phone.

Then 2 things happened. First, she got annoyed at all the unwanted attention her cracked screen was getting, everyone she ran into wanted to chat about it.

The other, she is a social worker psychotherapist, and works with very low income people that basically lives off of government support. She was annoyed that every client of hers couldn't pay their electric bills, but had a brand new iPhone. While she, wanting to be conservative with money, was using an old broken one.

I talked her into getting an SE and we are going to try to get one this week.
 
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smacrumon said:
Apple should have realized they were on the wrong track with such a large product as 6/6s that required a "Reachability" feature to make it useful. Long live 4 inch form factor.
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I agree that one handed use of the 6s Plus is a PITA, but there is a huge market for the larger phones and I doubt Apple will be dropping the larger sizes anytime soon.

Although, after the experience of using the 6s Plus, I think I am going to downgrade to a SE. Using the 6s Plus is nice if I am sitting down and have two hands on it. In every other situation, which is the majority of time for me, I wish I had something smaller.
 
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JCrz said:
...and people still think Apple is going to make a car—in an industry with razor-thin margins.
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Do you have evidence that you can point to that contradicts the rumours and indications that they are?

Honestly curious, I see people dismiss the idea but they don't seem to have anything to say why.
 
so, does it happen every year? when apple launch new iphone and after one week its out of stock and available to ship 2-3 weeks?
 
Benjamin Frost said:
Apple should never have stopped selling a 4" iPhone, as the SE demand testifies. Cook said he was surprised at the strength of demand, and that it was a lot higher than he had anticipated.

That, to me, shows his blindness of strategy. For Apple to abandon the optimal form factor for two years was cretinous, and bodes badly for the future as long as Cook is CEO.
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I was surprised to see another 4" iPhone and didn't wait. Now own a 4.7" iPhone 6 thru a carrier. At the next sales opportunity I will go back to the 4". Still too new and full price at the moment.

I just wish they would offer a 128GB version instead of limiting it to 64GB.
To me the iPhone 5, 5S, SE design was the best. No camera bump, thicker/better battery life and better pocket fit.

Tim should have a stealth Macrumors account and READ what the people have been saying prior to the larger iPhone launch. While many people no doubt were waiting for phablet iPhones, many people were just as vocal about keeping a 4" version in the line-up.

Too many variances clogging production lines these days. I would drop the middle sizes and keep the 4" and 5.5" sizes for iPhones, as well as drop the iPad Mini. With margin pressure (37% nowadays) Apple should trim the product line up instead of following Samsung down the many-sizes-fits-somebody road.
 
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kerrikins said:
Do you have evidence that you can point to that contradicts the rumours and indications that they are?

Honestly curious, I see people dismiss the idea but they don't seem to have anything to say why.
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He kind of did saying cars typically have thin margins, unlike most Apple products.

If Apple does end up making a car, I really hope it doesn't look like that motor trend mockup that was posted on MR a few weeks ago.

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