SE always gets the latest processor at release, because it won't be updated again for another 3 years.
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iPhone SE 4 Could Be More Expensive
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They should be appealing to all income levels if the goal is buying into services
All people are potential services customers
The time to decide whether it's crap is after it comes out, not before
We all know it'll be inferior to the Qualcomm modem. The only question is how inferior it is. What features will it support? What speeds will it deliver? What power will it consume?
It'll be worse in every respect.
The 14 is already being discontinued in Europe as of January 1st. It is likely to go away in the U.S. as soon as the new SE comes out. The awkwardness of having both the new SE and 15 on sale at the same time will likely be cured when the 17 series is unveiled in later 2025. The 15 can go away at that point. Another possibility: the base 15 and 15 Air get 8GB of RAM after the SE comes out. But the SE would still be superior in other ways. I think the 15 goes away next fall - Apple wants all of its devices going forward to work with AI.
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Apple doesn’t care about reasonable pricing. It’s all about increasing their profit margins. The new SE will be $599!
To be competitive with AI, Apple has to offer powerful hardware even in a SE device. At current SE pricing they cannot implement an 3nm SOC, so they have to find a way to justify a price increase - this will be the rumored iPhone Air. It will be thin as thinness doesn’t cost anything and have only 1 camera, which is fine for SE users.
That sounds like a reasonable price. Any price that Apple sets would be a reasonable price.
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Price should never be a metric people use to judge a product. It should be product experience and frictionless integration with the most amazing ecosystem in tech.
No way they are increasing RAM on an old SoC
iPhone 14 is discontinued only because EU regulations require an USB C port.
That’s not applicable to a product like the SE, intended as a low cost iPhone (in Apple’s terms)
iPhone SE will be priced at $499, which will put the (in many ways worse) iPhone 14 in a somewhat strange position at $599. However, if it’s not discontinued on the same day as the SE announcement, the 14 will be sent out to pasture with its slot taken by the iPhone 15 by the September event. This is ideal, since the 15 has visible and clear improvements over the new SE (such as the Dynamic Island).
The SE will be the best “deal” or value-prop in the iPhone lineup until September 2026, when the iPhone 16 will take the bargain slot above the SE at $599 and be a worthwhile upgrade for just one hundred dollars more. And so it will go until the SE gets upgraded to the fifth gen sometime around 2028.
The SE will be the best “deal” or value-prop in the iPhone lineup until September 2026, when the iPhone 16 will take the bargain slot above the SE at $599 and be a worthwhile upgrade for just one hundred dollars more. And so it will go until the SE gets upgraded to the fifth gen sometime around 2028.
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Well, the current iPhone SE wasn’t really better than iPhone 12, when introduced in 2022, so I wouldn’t bet the new SE will be better than iPhone 14, except maybe for the SoC
that's the SE1 spirit. I genuinely feel bad for Apple addicts who never experienced that device.
They missed out big time.