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iPhone 16e Has Apparently 'Failed' Just Like iPhone Air
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"Budget friendly" would be the base 16e version with 128GB of storage and without all those extras you added…
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.
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…
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.
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.
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.
Who gives a flying flip about mag safe? It doesn’t bother me.
Had the same feeling about it, went with the 17 instead.
“REALLY greedy” or not, the omission is easily overcome by using a case with a MagSafe ring.
It's how I do about 90% of my iPhone charging.
I love it and wouldn't want to go back to primarily (or only) charging via a cable.
Since replacing my phone with a 15 Pro refurb, I don’t think I’ve charged it in any way other than MagSafe.
I was waiting for the new SE last year then they announced this POS I said they wouldn’t do well surprise surprise it hasn’t even though it’s more expensive than the phone it replaced I just ended up buying a 15 pro refurbished more than half the price of a 16e my only problem now is now disabling AI rubbish