To be fair, it's looking increasingly like something that Apple can live with until September 2025. To be clear, I'm talking about the SE4 being a short term great spec phone vs the 15.
That's probably a given - Apple don't update their SE line every year. Once every 2-3 years sounds about right (the gap between SE2 and SE3 was 2 years) but then the SE1 was neglected for 4 years until the SE2 came along and we're about to hit 3 years for SE3 to SE4.
We will never know what’s truly going on behind the scenes, but it’s hard to work magic when someone else owns patents. Apple would rather buy Qualcomm and they certainly can easily do it, but they know that will not happen, so they have to go another route.
So your saying Apple will intentionally infringe on Qualcomm patents so they can go to court with Qualcomm who they already came to an agreement with just so they can probably lose the patent court case and to pay Qualcomm even more money? It just doesn’t make sense mathematically and those numbers do not work for Cook or Apple as a corporation. They would just be going in circles ⭕️
The new iPhone SE 4 will be Apple’s budget gem 💎 phone for a Strong 4 years before they upgrade transition to SE 5. The SE 4 will have Apple Intelligence so this gem is gonna last for years.
That’s where the Intel processor contributes
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Why do you think it won't have faceid?
And the differences will be so minuscule no one will even notice in regular day-to-day usage.
But of course it would be entertaining to watch the fuss (disappointment?) if Apple's modem performs surprisingly better in some unexpected but desirable manner.
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Tim Cook is a greedy MBA degree holding corporate scumbag who always finds a way to cut corners in order to give customers less while also raising prices. The 2022 iPhone SE was proof of that. It was exactly the same as the 2020 iPhone SE, with the exception of an A15 (instead of A13), 5G (instead of 4G), 4GB of RAM (instead of 3GB), and slightly different colors. It was a phone that went on sale in 2022 with almost all the same components as the iPhone 8 that went on sale five years earlier, in 2017.
So don't be surprised if the upcoming 2025 iPhone SE features components from a phone sold five years ago. Heck, the latest 2024 non-Pro iPhone 16 has the same USB 2.0 data transfer speed as the very first iPhone sold in 2007, which was 17 years ago! See the thread in the link below for more details on that:
Will iPhone 14 be USB 2.0? Probably, since Cook is mediocre.
Apple computers have had USB 3.0 since mid-2012. That is 10 years ago. Despite that, Tim Cook, being the mediocre beancounter MBA suit that he is, has still not done anything to upgrade the connectivity on the latest iPhones. The latest iPhones use the same USB 2.0 connectivity that shipped with...
