iPhone 16e Has Apparently 'Failed' Just Like iPhone Air

[nburwell]

My MIL is the only person I know/seen that has the 16e. Similarly, I haven’t seen any 17 Air’s out in the wild (but it’s still fairly new).

I feel Apple should have priced the 16e a little more competitively. But what do I know?

 

[The Game 161]

yet was top 10 in global sales not long ago. hardly a failure

 

[tgwaste]

256G iPhone 16E with apple care + case + screen protector + tax = $1000
that's not budget friendly and all of those "extras" are reasonable.

 

[I7guy]

An apple failure is a roaring success with other companies.

 

[geta]

256G iPhone 16E with apple care + case + screen protector + tax = $1000
that's not budget friendly and all of those "extras" are reasonable.

"Budget friendly" would be the base 16e version with 128GB of storage and without all those extras you added…

 

[okkibs]

The 16e was never a budget friendly iPhone to begin with. The SE was a budget iPhone and priced accordingly. The 16e is merely an iPhone 13 with a newer chip and a lot of drawbacks like the single camera and lack of Magsafe magnets. Same recipe as the SE but not priced accordingly.

 

[milkrocket]

So many people predicted this at launch. As usual Apple buried its head in the sand and refused to listen.