iPhone 16e Sales Outperform SE in First Quarter YoY, Pro Models Decline

[Arghyayon]

According to nearly all tech reviewers, no-one should buy the 16e.

Looks like that got lost in translation then (I'm a 16e owner).

I would be interested to know how people are buying the 16e - I'm going to assume that it's mostly via carrier deals, but I'd love to know.

I bought the iPhone 16e 128 GB storage for $599 via Apple Store website (No, I didn’t wanted to buy through carrier deals because I no longer trust companies like Amazon, Best Buy, Walmart, T-Mobile, AT&T etc. due to scams!) due to my worst android phone experiences that are laggy, unreliable software and etc. I had no prior iPhone before so this is my first iPhone that I own now which is why I waited for Apple to release this iPhone specifically. The reason, it’s because of C1 chip, battery life, 48MP camera, usb-c, A18 chip, 8GB ram and action button. I know they’ve released the iPhone 17, 17 Pros and Air but I have no intention to buy/trade in those phones because I just want a simple phone that can do almost everything faster and reliable for long term.

 

[deconstruct60]

We will never know how the iPhone mini would have fared had Apple kept it around and continued to support it. My guess is that the 16e has higher margins than the iPhone mini, given that the former is made up largely of parts from older / existing devices.

To a substantive extent the 16e is made up older stuff also. Screen , basic chassis, fewer cameras than Mini , etc.

The SE models always started off with a newer Chip but sagged over time. The 16e cranked up the RAM (for Apple Intelligence) and probably the SSD storage relative to what Apple 'normally' would have done to a SE to kneecap it ( again for Apple Intelligence ). The margins are probably in same rage. The profit per phone is higher ( because the base price the margin percentage is applied to is substantially higher).

If Apple tosses the 16e when the 17e comes out they also have a phone that is falling off a cliff every year. ( that isn't going to be help margins be higher. The SE would coast longer on the same hardware so more economies of scale over the lifecycle. ) . The 17e will likely just get chip bump and keep as much as possible the same , but cycling every 12-16 months on that will cost more than SE squatting for 24 months.