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.

 

[geta]

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

At the right price point the 16e could be successful…

 

[turbineseaplane]

I was at the Apple Store yesterday and forgot to look at the 16e! Grrr..

Got the 35 seconds I needed of "hands on" time with the Air to realize it's WAY too big for me.

I have less than zero interest in a device the length and width of an Air.
Thinness was nice I guess. I don't personally care about a device being as thin as the Air is.

There are diminishing returns on that metric for me.

 

[Atomic1977]

As a proud owner of the iPhone 16e I have to disagree with the fact that it failed. It’s a great device and does all that I need in a iPhone with out being overly costly and gimmicky. That’s all that matters.

 

[tgwaste]

As a proud owner of the iPhone 16e I have to disagree with the fact that it failed. It’s a great device and does all that I need in a iPhone with out being overly costly and gimmicky. That’s all that matters.

It's a good device for sure. But I found no magsafe to be a REALLY greedy omission for the price of that phone.

 

[geta]

It's a good device for sure. But I found no magsafe to be a REALLY greedy omission for the price of that phone.

I wouldn't be surprised if MagSafe will be part of the new features of the 17e.